Description
- Abstract:
- Caught mid-stride, the over life-size bronze statue of Frederick Douglass stands in front of Holmes Hall on the campus of Morgan State University, a historically Black university in Baltimore, Maryland. The bearded Douglass holds a cane in his right hand as he steps forward on his right foot.
- Notes:
- Frederick Douglass (Morgan State University, Baltimore, 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
- CC0 1.0
- Restrictions on Use
- Collection is open for research.
Citation
Baltimore Heritage (Wikimedia Commons),
"Frederick Douglass (Morgan State University, Baltimore, Maryland)"
(1956).
Black Abolitionists: Tubman, Douglass, Truth.
Brown Digital Repository. Brown University Library.
https://repository.library.brown.edu/studio/item/bdr:bq3dsyjb/
Relations
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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 …