September 21, 2020- Frederick Douglass

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Title

September 21, 2020- Frederick Douglass

Subject

Tufts University. Tisch Library. Special Collections

Description

In 1838 Frederick Douglass (1818-1895) escaped slavery in Maryland with assistance from his soon-to-be wife, a free Black woman, Anna Murray. They settled in Massachusetts, a center of Abolitionist effort. Douglass quickly became a leading orator, writer, and publisher in the ant-slavery movement, as he would, as well, for women's suffrage, and equality for Native Americans and Chinese immigrants.

Over 175 years, the frontispiece portrait of Douglass in this first edition of his first book, published in Boston, has imprinted itself on the opposite title page. This book is one of many primary sources (pamphlets, serials, and books) on slavery and Abolition in Tisch Special Collections.

Creator

Christopher Barbour

Source

Publisher

Tufts University. Tisch Library.

Date

September 21, 2020

Contributor

Anna Minasyan

Format

Image/jpg

Language

eng

Type

image

Coverage

2020
19th century

Citation

Christopher Barbour , “September 21, 2020- Frederick Douglass,” Tufts Libraries Omeka, accessed November 1, 2024, http://omeka.library.tufts.edu/items/show/5286.