DETAILS: Original cartes des visites portrait photograph of a of young Frederick Douglas taken by Philadelphia photographer J.W. Hurn, Philadelphia. Circa 1865. Measures 2.5" x 4" inches. 



BIOGRAPHY: Frederick Douglass (1817-1895) was an abolitionist, orator, writer, and statesman. He became the most important leader of the movement for African-American civil rights in the 19th century.
After escaping from slavery in Maryland in 1838, Douglass became a national leader of the abolitionist movement in Massachusetts and New York, during which he gained fame for his oratory and incisive antislavery writings. Accordingly, he was described by abolitionists in his time as a living counterexample to claims by supporters of slavery that enslaved people lacked the intellectual capacity to function as independent American citizens. Northerners at the time found it hard to believe that such a great orator had once been enslaved. 



 

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