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Specific picture descriptions: Photos above with "i" icons next to the bracketed sequence numbers (e.g. "[1] ") are described as follows:
1. DOUGVC_181121_001.JPG: Frederick Douglass: Life & Legacy The Many Sides of a Self-Made Man
2. DOUGVC_181121_010.JPG: Frederick Douglass: Life & Legacy A Man of the Arts
3. DOUGVC_181121_015.JPG: Frederick Douglass: Life & Legacy The World Traveler
4. DOUGVC_181121_019.JPG: For a man who once, according to some, should have never left his Master's plantation, Frederick took in the sights of world, often with Helen at his side.
5. DOUGVC_181121_022.JPG: Frederick Douglass: Life & Legacy The Statesman
6. DOUGVC_181121_027.JPG: The gallant charge of the fifty fourth Massachusetts (colored) regiment: on the rebel works at Fort Wagner, Morris Island, near Charleston, July 18th 1863, and death of Colonel Robt. G. Shaw.
7. DOUGVC_181121_048.JPG: The District of Columbia abolished slavery before the rest of the country. As many celebrated, Douglass recognized the work of a reformer was never complete and he constantly sought to advance efforts for universal rights and freedom.
8. DOUGVC_181121_050.JPG: This 1841 anti-slavery meeting shows an audience much like ones that Frederick Douglass spoke to on many occasions over his decades of civil rights work.
9. DOUGVC_181121_054.JPG: "to those who have suffered in slavery I can say, I, too, have suffered... to those who have battled for liberty, brotherhood, and citizenship I can say, I, too, have battled."
10. DOUGVC_181121_069.JPG: Ed Dwight (c) 1981
11. DOUGVC_181121_076.JPG: What, to the American slave, is your 4th of July? I answer: a day that reveals to him, more than all other days in the year, the gross injustice and cruelty to which he is the constant victim. To him, your celebration is a sham; your boasted liberty, an unholy license; your national greatness, swelling vanity; your sounds of rejoicing are empty and heartless; your denunciations of tyrants, brass fronted impudence; your shouts of liberty and equality, hollow mockery; your prayers and hymns, your sermons and thanksgivings, with all your religious parade, and solemnity, are, to him, mere bombast, fraud, deception, impiety, and hypocrisy -- a thin veil to cover up crimes which would disgrace a nation of savages.
12. DOUGVC_181121_083.JPG: May may combine to prevent cruelty to animals, for they are dumb and can not speak for themselves; but we are men and must speak for ourselves, or we shall not be spoken for at all.
13. DOUGVC_181121_087.JPG: When I ran away from slavery, it was for myself; when I advocated emancipation, it was for my people; but when I stood up for the rights of woman, self was out of the question.
14. DOUGVC_181121_091.JPG: It was a great thing for the friends of peace to organize in opposition to war; it was a great thing for the friends of temperance to organize against intemperance; it was a great thing for humane people to organize in opposition to slavery; but it was a much greater thing... for woman to organize herself in opposition to her exclusion from participation in government
15. DOUGVC_181121_094.JPG: Right is of no sex -- Truth is of no color -- God is the Father of us all, and all we are brethren.
16. DOUGVC_181121_097.JPG: Frederick Douglass' family
17. DOUGVC_181121_100.JPG: Moments in Frederick Douglass' life... in excerpts from his autobiography
18. DOUGVC_181121_106.JPG: A book inspires him
19. DOUGVC_181121_115.JPG: Helps the underground railroad
20. DOUGVC_181121_122.JPG: 1845 His first book 1845 Sails to England to avoid capture
21. DOUGVC_181121_128.JPG: His freedom purchase Dec. 1846
22. DOUGVC_181121_129.JPG: 1847 Publishes the North Star
23. DOUGVC_181121_132.JPG: The Best School
24. DOUGVC_181121_145.JPG: 1848 Joins the cause for women's rights
25. DOUGVC_181121_148.JPG: 1863 Revels in Emancipation Proclamation Joins Union Cause
26. DOUGVC_181121_150.JPG: Enlists Negroes in Union Army
27. DOUGVC_181121_164.JPG: 1872 Leaves Rochester, NY
28. DOUGVC_181121_166.JPG: 1877 Appointed US Marshal
29. DOUGVC_181121_169.JPG: 1889 Minister Resident / Consul General to Haiti
30. DOUGVC_181121_180.JPG: Feb 20. 1895 Frederick Douglass Dies
31. DOUGVC_181121_196.JPG: The rangers pointed out that there were pieces of Douglass' beard in the plaster of his death mask.
32. DOUGVC_181121_214.JPG: Frederick Douglass: Life & Legacy The Mentor
33. DOUGVC_181121_219.JPG: Ida B. Wells Frederick Douglass mentored Ida B. Wells in the final years of his life. He praised the young, outspoken journalist for being unafraid to stand up against mob violence and lynchings.
34. DOUGVC_181121_220.JPG: Paul Laurence Dunbar Poet Paul Laurence Dunbar worked for Frederick Douglass during the World's Columbian Exposition in 1893, several years before Dunbar became a renowned writer. Douglass recognized his talent and declared him "the most promising young colored man in America."
35. DOUGVC_181121_223.JPG: Frederick Douglass: Life & Legacy The Anacostian
36. DOUGVC_181121_226.JPG: Although the view from Cedar Hill has always been impressive, Frederick Douglass looked out on a different view of his constantly changing and growing community. Anacostia sprawled before his eyes.
37. DOUGVC_181121_229.JPG: The Anacostia River split Uniontown from much of Washington DC, visible across the river. Frederick Douglass' commitment to his community helped to foster its growth and development.
38. DOUGVC_181121_232.JPG: Frederick Douglass: Life & Legacy The Early Civil Rights Leader
39. DOUGVC_181121_235.JPG: "Let us have no country but a free country, liberty for all and chains for none." -- Frederick Douglass, 1864
40. DOUGVC_181121_238.JPG: The District of Columbia abolished slavery before the rest of the country. As many celebrated, Douglass recognized the work of a reformer was never complete and he constantly sought to advance efforts for universal rights and freedom.
41. DOUGVC_181121_241.JPG: This 1841 anti-slavery meeting shows an audience much like ones that Frederick Douglass spoke to on many occasions over his decades of civil rights work.
42. DOUGVC_181121_250.JPG: "The family is the fountainhead of all mental and moral influence." -- Frederick Douglass, 1861
43. DOUGVC_181121_251.JPG: Frederick Douglass: Life & Legacy The Family Man
44. DOUGVC_181121_254.JPG: Anna Murray Douglass As soon as Douglass was free, he started a family. He married his first wife, Anna Murray, a free woman, shortly after she helped him flee north. From then on, she became an important part of his life. Her skills as a homemaker provided him with the middle class comforts of home many African Americans could only dream of. Together, they raised 5 children, and as a result, 21 grandchildren.
45. DOUGVC_181121_256.JPG: Helen Pitts Douglass When Douglass married Helen Pitts in 1884, their interracial relationship was controversial. Even his children were upset. Helen remained his loving partner until his death in 1895, and she worked tirelessly to preserve his legacy by caring for his cherished family home, Cedar Hill.
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