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Benjamin Franklin Butler

Benjamin Franklin Butler

Photograph
c. 1861
National Portrait Gallery
Charles DeForest Fredricks
John Carmel Heenan

John Carmel Heenan

Print
c. 1860
National Portrait Gallery
Currier & Ives Lithography Company
Benjamin Franklin Butler

Benjamin Franklin Butler

Photograph
c. 1861
National Portrait Gallery
Mathew Brady Studio
Ye Vow

Ye Vow

Print
c. 1862
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Adalbert John Volck
Lewis Bennett

Lewis Bennett

Photograph
c. 1862
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George Newbold
William Miller

William Miller

Print
1851
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J. H. Bufford Lithography Company
Charles Wilkes

Charles Wilkes

Photograph
c. 1861
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Charles DeForest Fredricks
John Hunt Morgan

John Hunt Morgan

Photograph
c. 1862
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Unidentified Artist
Frederick Douglass

Frederick Douglass

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c. 1850 (after c. 1847 daguerreotype)
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Unidentified Artist
Frederick Douglass

Frederick Douglass

Photograph
1856
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Unidentified Artist
Jermain W. Loguen

Jermain W. Loguen

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1859
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De Lay Glover
Solomon in His Plantation Suit (frontispiece to

Solomon in His Plantation Suit (frontispiece to "Twelve Years a Slave")

Book
1854
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Nathaniel Orr
Gerard Victor Rachal David

Gerard Victor Rachal David

Photograph
c.1864
National Portrait Gallery
E.W. Mealy's Photograph Gallery
Literary Bird

Literary Bird

Print
1851
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Max Rosenthal
John Alexander McClernand

John Alexander McClernand

Photograph
c. 1862
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Mathew Brady Studio

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