Picturing Frederick Douglass: An Illustrated Biography of the Nineteenth Century's Most Photographed American

by Zoe Trodd, Celeste-Marie Bernier, John Stauffer

Book Overview

Picturing Frederick Douglass is a work that promises to revolutionize our knowledge of race and photography in nineteenth-century America. Teeming with historical detail, it is filled with surprises, chief among them the fact that neither George Custer nor Walt Whitman, and not even Abraham Lincoln, was the most photographed American of that century. In fact, it was Frederick Douglass (1818-1895), the ex-slave turned leading abolitionist, eloquent...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0871404680
• ISBN13: 9780871404688
• Release Date: November 2015
• Publisher: Liveright Publishing Corporation
• Length: 320 Pages
• Weight: 3.74 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 9.3" x 12.1"