Frederick Douglass Ambrotype

Title

Frederick Douglass Ambrotype

Description

This photograph is of Frederick Douglass, an escaped slave who became a prominent leader of the abolitionist movement prior to the U.S. Civil War. His autobiography, Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave (1845) was a bestseller among Northern audiences.

Creator

Unknown

Source

Unknown, "Frederick Douglass Ambrotype," photograph, 1856, National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution, http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Motto_frederick_douglass_2.jpg (accessed November 22, 2014).

Date

1856-XX-XX

Contributor

Rose Buchanan

Original Format

photograph

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Files

Frederick Douglass in 1856.jpg

Citation

Unknown, “Frederick Douglass Ambrotype,” The State of History, accessed March 28, 2024, https://soh.omeka.chass.ncsu.edu/items/show/33237.