1838

Frederick Douglass as a young man: 1838 ca. Image by Washington Area Spark Frederick Douglass, the pre-eminent African American abolitionist prior to and during the Civil War, is shown in an illustration depicting him as a young man about the age shortly after he escaped bondage in Maryland in 1838. Frederick Augustus Washington Bailey was born into slavery on the Eastern … [Read more...] about Frederick Douglass as a young man: 1838 ca.