Featured The Life and Presidency of Harry S. Truman
The White House Historical Association’s 2018 White House Christmas Ornament honors Harry S. Truman, the thirty-third president of the United St...
Frederick Douglass carte-de-visite
- Date of Work
- 1870
- Credit
- Jesse Bravo and The Chris Webber Collection of Artifacts and Documents
Frederick Douglass carte-de-visite
The son of an enslaved woman and an unknown white man, Frederick Augustus Washington Bailey was born into slavery in 1818 on Maryland's eastern shore. He was enslaved for twenty years in city households in Baltimore and on Maryland farms. In 1838, he fled north and changed his name to Frederick Douglass.
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