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Frederick Douglass Memorial (Easton, Maryland)

Description

Abstract:
Standing to the right of a lectern, Frederick Douglass is depicted as in elder statesman, with a furrowed brow and deep lines marking his face. Captured mid-speech, Douglass raises his right hand above his head in a rhetorical gesture, while his left-hand rests atop the lectern. The life-sized bronze figure rests on a base of stone. The work is located in front of the Maryland Circuit Court Judge’s Office in Easton, Maryland. Just to the right and in the same plaza is a monument to Confederate soldiers.
Notes:
Frederick Douglass Memorial (Easton, Maryland), Brown University Library
Digital object made available by: Brown University Library, Center for Digital Scholarship, Box A, Brown University, Providence, RI, 02912, U.S.A., (http://library.brown.edu/)

Access Conditions

Rights
CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
Restrictions on Use
Collection is open for research.

Citation

Ater, Renée, "Frederick Douglass Memorial (Easton, Maryland)" (2011). Black Abolitionists: Tubman, Douglass, Truth. Brown Digital Repository. Brown University Library. https://repository.library.brown.edu/studio/item/bdr:93fc2tf5/

Relations

Collection:

  • Black Abolitionists: Tubman, Douglass, Truth

    The monuments and memorials in this collection commemorate the extraordinary achievements of three U.S. Black abolitionist and freedom seekers: Harriet Tubman, née Araminta Ross, (c. 1822-1913); Frederick Douglass (c. 1818-1895); and Sojourner Truth (1797-1883).

    Born into slavery on Maryland’s Eastern …

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