Frederick Douglass portrait   Save
National Afro-American Museum and Cultural Center
Description: Frederick Douglass, born a slave named Frederick Augustus Washington Bailey, was an American social reformer, orator, writer and statesman. After escaping from slavery through the Underground Railroad, he became a leader of the abolitionist movement. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: NAM_SC20_2
Subjects: Douglass, Frederick, 1818-1895; Underground Railroad; Slavery; Abolitionists; African American men; Activists; African American authors; Civil rights
Places: National Afro-American Museum and Cultural Center