Maryland Hall Presents at the Banneker-Douglass Museum

At Banneker-Douglass Museum | 84 Franklin Street, Annapolis MD

Celebrate Frederick Douglass' birthday with an engaging lecture given by Dr. John Stauffer, Harvard University professor and author of Picturing Frederick Douglass: An Illustrated Biography of the Nineteenth Century's Most Photographed American.

Picturing Frederick Douglass is a work that promises to revolutionize our knowledge of race and photography in nineteenth-century America. Teeming with historical detail, it is filled with surprises, chief among them the fact that neither George Custer nor Walt Whitman, and not even Abraham Lincoln, was the most photographed American of that century. In fact, it was Frederick Douglass.

Learn why Douglass believed in the social power of the photograph at this special event.

About John Stauffer: John Stauffer is a leading authority on antislavery, the Civil War era, social protest movements and photography. He is a Harvard University professor of English and American Literature, American Studies and African American Studies and author of 19 books.