“The freedmen were not really free in 1865, nor are most of their descendants really free in 1965. Slavery was but one aspect of a race and color problem that is still far from solution here, or anywhere. In America particularly, the grapes of wrath have not yet yielded all their bitter vintage.”
~Samuel Eliot Morison

American historian and U.S. Naval officer Samuel Eliot Morison was born on this day in 1887.