Picturing Frederick Douglass: An Illustrated Biography of the Nineteenth Century's Most Photographed American Eleni N. Gage Publisher: Pace University Press

Publisher: Pace University Press

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Picturing Frederick Douglass: An Illustrated Biography of the Nineteenth Century's Most Photographed American Eleni N. Gage Publisher: Pace University PressCommemorating the bicentennial of Frederick Douglass's birthday and featuring images discovered since its original publication in 2015, this "tour de force" (Library Journal, starred review) reintroduced Frederick Douglass to a twenty first century audience. From these pages which include over 160 photographs of Douglass, as well as his previously unpublished writings and speeches on visual aesthetics we learn that neither Custer nor Twain, nor even