Picturing Frederick Douglass :
an illustrated biography of the nineteenth century's most photographed American /
John Stauffer, Zoe Trodd, and Celeste-Marie Bernier.

Description

Main Author

Stauffer, John, 1965-

Related Names

Bernier, Celeste-Marie, author.
Trodd, Zoe, author.

Language(s)

English

Published

New York : Liveright Publishing Corporation, a division of W.W. Norton & Company, [2015]

Edition

First edition.

Subjects

Douglass, Frederick, > Douglass, Frederick, / 1818-1895
Douglass, Frederick, > Douglass, Frederick, / 1818-1895 > Douglass, Frederick, / 1818-1895 / Pictorial works.
Douglass, Frederick, > Douglass, Frederick, / 1818-1895
African American abolitionists
Abolitionists
Abolitionists > Abolitionists / United States > Abolitionists / United States / Biography
African American abolitionists > African American abolitionists / Biography
United States
Pictorial works.
Illustrated works.
Biographies
Biographies.
Pictorial works
Illustrated works
Biographies
Biographies
Illustrated works
Biographies

Summary

"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,"--NoveList.

Physical Description

xxviii, 288 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 32 cm

ISBN

0871404680
9780871404688

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