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

First edition.

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

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

BEIN E449.D75 S733 2015 (LC) Oversize: Number line on title page verso indicates first printing: "1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0". Dust jacket.

"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.

English

January 20, 2016

Includes bibliographical references (pages [241]-276) and index.