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

by Zoe Trodd, Celeste-Marie Bernier, John Stauffer

Book Overview

Commemorating 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 From these pages--which include over 160 photographs of Douglass, as well as his previously unpublished writings and speeches on visual aesthetics--we learn that neither Custer nor Twain, nor...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1631494295
• ISBN13: 9781631494291
• Release Date: February 2018
• Publisher: Liveright Publishing Corporation
• Length: 320 Pages
• Weight: 3.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 9.3" x 12.3"