The Most Photographed

Photography Was Frederick Douglass’ Most Powerful Tool for Abolition

By Jeremy Gray, petapixel.com

Famed abolitionist, writer, and civil rights leader (from Maryland) Frederick Douglass was pioneering and influential in his use of photography in the 19th-century abolitionist movement. For Douglass and his peers, the camera was a potent weapon in the fight for the rights and freedoms of Black Americans.

“Frederick Douglass was the most photographed person in America in the 19th century, bar anyone,” Lonnie Bunch, Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, tells Nancy Giles on CBS News Sunday Morning. FINISH READING HERE

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