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Photography and the secret of Frederick Douglass' power
Source: CBS News•June 28, 2026
Frederick Douglass, who was born into slavery and became an influential orator, writer and intellectual, was the most photographed person in America in the 19th century. Nancy Giles explores how Douglass used the early photographic medium to promote the cause of abolition.
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