Frederick Douglass Digital COLORIZED Art (Download)
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- Frederick Douglass, Feb 1818 - 20 Feb 1895
- 10.21 inches x 13.333 inches @ 600 pixels/inch resolution
- photograph digital enhancement copyright Van Sverigen Technologies
- Born near Easton, Maryland, he was an American social reformer, abolitionist, orator, writer, and statesman. After escaping from slavery in Maryland he became a national leader of the abolitionists movement in Massachusetts and New York, becoming famous for his oratory and incisive antislavery writings. Accordingly, he was described by abolitionists in his time as a living counterexample to slaveholders' arguments that slaves lacked the intellectual capacity to function as independent American citizens. In the years following his escape from bondage in 1838, Frederick Douglass emerged as a powerful and persuasive spokesman for the cause of abolition. His effectiveness as an antislavery advocate was due in large measure to his firsthand experience with the evils of slavery and his extraordinary skill as an orator. His "glowing logic, biting irony, melting appeals, and electrifying eloquence" astonished and enthralled his audiences. As this ambrotype suggests, Douglass’s power was also rooted in the sheer impressiveness of his bearing, which abolitionist and activist Elizabeth Cady Stanton likened to that of "an African prince, majestic in his wrath."