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Picturing Frederick Douglass, by John Stauffer
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A landmark and collectible volume—beautifully produced in duotone—that canonizes Frederick Douglass through historic photography.
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 orator, and seminal writer whose fiery speeches transformed him into one of the most renowned and popular agitators of his age.
To Douglass, photography was the great "democratic art" that would finally assert black humanity in place of the slave "thing" and at the same time counter the blackface minstrelsy caricatures that had come to define the public perception of what it meant to be black.
“These images don’t change your mind; they smash through some of the warped lenses through which we’ve been taught to see.” - New York Times
“A terrific new book.” - The New Yorker
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