Teeming with historical detail, _Picturing Frederick Douglass: An Illustrated Biography of the Nineteenth Century's Most Photographed American_, is a book that will revolutionize our knowledge of race and photography in 19th-century America. The book is filled with surprises. Chief among them is the assertion that neither President Abraham Lincoln, nor General George Custer, nor poet Walt Whitman was the most photographed American of the 1800s. That honor belongs to Frederick Douglass. **Dr. John Stauffer** of Harvard University, and **Dr. Zoe Trodd** of the University of Nottingham reveal images from their visual biography. As a result of their groundbreaking research, the formerly enslaved abolitionist leader, eloquent orator, and seminal writer -- whose fiery speeches transformed him into one of the most renowned and popular agitators of his age, emerges as a leading pioneer in photography.
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