Description: Finalist for the Gilder Lehrman Lincoln Prize
A landmark and collectible volume--beautifully produced in duotone--that canonizes Frederick Douglass through historic photography.
Brief description: Celeste-Marie Bernier is professor of African American studies in the Department of American and Canadian Studies at the University of Nottingham.
Review Quotes: Nothing less than a masterpiece in the fields of biography, African-American history, and not least of all the neglected area of iconography...A riveting instant classic and a pure pleasure to behold.--Harold Holzer, winner of the Lincoln Prize and author of Lincoln and the Power of the Press: The War for Public Opinion