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DOUGLASS, FREDERICK (1817-1895). Cabinet photograph signed recto and verso ("Frederick Douglass. Born 1817"), by C.M. Bell, Washington (imprint on margin), n.d. [circa 1885]. 162 x 166 mm. (6 3/8 x 4 1/8 in.) including margin, newspaper clipping affixed on verso. A shoulder-length portrait, signed on the lower margin and verso.
"Born a slave, at the age of twenty-one he escaped to Massachusetts, where he became a fiery spokesman for abolition. After the Civil War Douglass held a number of positions in the United States government, and he has long been revered as the first great leader of the black people in America"--W.M.
"Born a slave, at the age of twenty-one he escaped to Massachusetts, where he became a fiery spokesman for abolition. After the Civil War Douglass held a number of positions in the United States government, and he has long been revered as the first great leader of the black people in America"--W.M.