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Frederick Douglass

Frederick Douglass

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

Frederick Douglass

Painting
c. 1845
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Frederick Douglass

Frederick Douglass

Photograph
1856
National Portrait Gallery
Unidentified Artist
Frederick Douglass

Frederick Douglass

Photograph
c. 1860
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W. Wells Brown (frontispiece to

W. Wells Brown (frontispiece to "The American Fugitive in Europe. Sketches of Places and People Abroad"

Book
1855
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Richard Woodman
General Winfield Scott

General Winfield Scott

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c. 1850
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Robert Hare

Robert Hare

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c. 1856
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Alvan Clark
William Jermyn Florence

William Jermyn Florence

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1857
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Francis D'Avignon
Wendell Phillips

Wendell Phillips

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c. 1855
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Leopold Grozelier
James Dwight Dana

James Dwight Dana

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1857
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Rudolf Hoffmann
Winfield Scott

Winfield Scott

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c. 1855
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Robert Walter Weir
Andrew Hull Foote

Andrew Hull Foote

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c. 1862
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Caroline Street Leffingwell
Jefferson Davis

Jefferson Davis

Photograph
c. 1861
National Portrait Gallery
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Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

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1851
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W. H. Mote
Jefferson Davis

Jefferson Davis

Photograph
c. 1856
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