studio portrait of a Frederick Douglass. Wears a dark-colored suit, dark-colored black vest, white-colored shirt, and a black bow tie. Body and face slightly turn away from the camera. Eyes look into the camera.

Studio portrait of Frederick Douglass. Creation: 1875-1880. Photographer: Warren, G.K. (George Kendall).  Collection: Cartes de visite. Photographs and Prints Division, Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture

Frederick Douglass

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Frederick Douglass

Born in 1818, Tuckahoe, Maryland. Separated from his mother as an infant, lived with his grandmother on a plantation in Maryland. Became a house servant at eight with the Hugh Auld family in Baltimore. In 1838, fled to New York City, then New Bedford, Massachusetts.  Changed his name to Douglass to elude slave hunters. Two-year speaking tour of Great Britain and Ireland raised funds to purchase freedom and start an antislavery newspaper: the North Star, later Frederick Douglass Paper. First Black citizen to hold high position in the U.S. government. Consultant to President Abraham Lincoln during the Civil War.  Died in 1895, in Washington, D.C.

 

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