Picturing Frederick Douglass: An Illustrated Biography of the Nineteenth Century's Most Photographed American

by John Stauffer, Zoe Trodd and Celeste-Marie Bernier

The subtitle of this book is fascinating in itself. Was Frederick Douglass—who escaped slavery to become one of the 19th century’s leading anti-slavery campaigners—really photographed more often than, say, Abraham Lincoln? According to the authors of this book he was. Indeed, if it hadn’t been for the British royal family, he might have been the most photographed person in the world.