Photograph by J.W. Hurn of the celebrated American abolitionist. The Library of Congress has no catalog data on this portrait and assigns no date to it. David W. Blight, ed., Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, An American Slave, Written by Himself (New York, 1993, p. 146), suggests the photograph was taken shortly after the Civil War; Douglass would have been around 47-49 at the time.

Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, LC-USZ62-24165

English

Image is in the public domain. Metadata is available under Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International.

NW0235

North America

"Frederick Douglass, American abolitionist, ca. 1865", Slavery Images: A Visual Record of the African Slave Trade and Slave Life in the Early African Diaspora, accessed June 6, 2023, http://slaveryimages.org/s/slaveryimages/item/1531