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The Washington Family

The Washington Family

Print
1798
National Portrait Gallery
Edward Savage David Edwin
Frederick Douglass

Frederick Douglass

Sculpture
1972
National Portrait Gallery
Charles Arthur Wells
Frederick Douglass

Frederick Douglass

Photograph
c. 1850 (after c. 1847 daguerreotype)
National Portrait Gallery
Unidentified Artist
Frederick Douglass

Frederick Douglass

Drawing
1972
National Portrait Gallery
Charles Arthur Wells
Frederick Douglass

Frederick Douglass

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1876
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George Kendall Warren
The Fifteenth Amendment

The Fifteenth Amendment

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1870
National Portrait Gallery
Unidentified Artist
Phillis Wheatley (frontispiece to

Phillis Wheatley (frontispiece to "Poems on Various Subjects, Religious and Moral")

Book
1773
National Portrait Gallery
Unidentified Artist
Frederick Douglass

Frederick Douglass

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1856
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Unidentified Artist
Frederick Douglass

Frederick Douglass

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1876
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George Kendall Warren
Henry Walton Bibb

Henry Walton Bibb

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1847
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Olaudah Equiano

Olaudah Equiano

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1789
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Daniel Orme
Frederick Douglass

Frederick Douglass

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1870
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George Francis Schreiber
Frederick Douglass

Frederick Douglass

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1883
National Portrait Gallery
Unidentified Artist
Frontispiece to

Frontispiece to "Memoir of Phillis Wheatley"

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c. 1834
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Unidentified Artist
Frederick Douglass

Frederick Douglass

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c. 1860
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