Another man who would fully appreciate the Inaguration would have been *Soloman Northup*... Solomon Northup was a free black man who lived in New York at the time when the US Capitol was being built... He was kidnapped and sold into slavery and housed/imprisoned in the "Yellow House" which was at the intersection of 7th and Independence (???) Ave. with other slaves who helped build the Capitol building...
Yes, Mr. Northup would most certainly appreciate this event even more than anyone I can think of who will be there...