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Frederick Douglass
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What we can learn from Frederick Douglass today
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How Frederick Douglass learned to read and write
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How Frederick Douglass became an abolitionist
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How the Underground Railroad helped enslaved people find freedom
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Why Frederick Douglass wrote three autobiographies
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Frederick Douglass and the abolitionist movement
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American abolitionist and orator Frederick Douglass, 1862.
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Sarah J. Eddy: Frederick Douglass
Frederick Douglass, oil painting by Sarah J. Eddy, 1883; at Frederick Douglass...
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Abolitionist Frederick Douglass
Frederick Douglass, oil on canvas by Elisha Livermore Hammond, c. 1844; in the National...
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Frederick Douglass
American abolitionist and author Frederick Douglass, daguerreotype made c. 1850 from...
National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C. (object no. NPG.80.21)
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Cover of a first-edition copy of Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass,...
Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture, Washington, D.C.; gift of Elizabeth Cassell (object no. 2011.43.1)
Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass
Title page of Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave,...
From Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave by Frederick Douglass (Anti-Slavery Office, Boston, 1845)
Frederick Douglass, engraving from Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass
Engraving of Frederick Douglass, frontispiece from Narrative of the Life of Frederick...
Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave by Frederick Douglass, 1845
Engraving of Frederick Douglass in My Bondage and My Freedom
Frederick Douglass, frontispiece engraving from My Bondage and My Freedom,...
My Bondage and My Freedom by Frederick Douglass, 1855
The Fugitive's Song
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Author and orator Frederick Douglass, c. 1850.
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Frederick Douglass and Abraham Lincoln
Frederick Douglass Appealing to President Lincoln and His Cabinet to Enlist Negroes,...
The George F. Landegger Collection of District of Columbia Photographs in Carol M. Highsmith's America/Library of Congress, Washington, D.C. (LC-DIG-highsm-09902)
Lithograph of Frederick Douglass
Frederick Douglass sitting at his desk, hand-coloured lithographic print from Frank...
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture, Washington, D. C.; gift of Joele and Fred Michaud (object no. 2013.239.12)
Frederick Douglass
Author Frederick Douglass at his desk in his home in Haiti, c. 1890.
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Frederick Douglass and family
Author and orator Frederick Douglass with his second wife, Helen Pitts Douglass (sitting),...
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Frederick Douglass's home
Cedar Hill, Frederick Douglass's home in the Anacostia neighborhood of Washington,...
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Frederick Douglass's bedroom at Cedar Hill, his home in Washington, D.C.
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Frederick Douglass at his desk at Cedar Hill
Author Frederick Douglass at his desk at Cedar Hill, his home in Washington, D.C.
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Author Frederick Douglass.
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Frederick Douglass.
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