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Photography Was Frederick Douglass’ Most Powerful Tool for Abolition

Photography Was Frederick Douglass’ Most Powerful Tool for Abolition

Three historical portraits of Frederick Douglass: one seated in a suit looking to the side, one formal photograph in an ornate frame, and one older, bearded, looking right in a suit and bowtie.

Famed abolitionist, writer, and civil rights leader Frederick Douglass was pioneering and influential in his use of photography in the 19th-century abolitionist movement. For Douglass and his peers, the camera was a potent weapon in the fight for the rights and freedoms of Black Americans.

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