Love Across Color LinesIn this nuanced, sympathetic interpretation of two extraordinary lives, Maria Diedrich acquaints us with an important and little known relationship. Ottilie Assing, an intrepid German journalist, met and interviewed Frederick Douglass in 1856, and it was an encounter that transformed the lives of both. Diedrich reveals in fascinating detail their intimate twenty eight year relationship, their shared intellectual and cultural interests, and their work