Frederick Douglass Ambrotype

Frederick Douglass Ambrotype

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.

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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).

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Rose Buchanan

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