A sheet music cover illustrated with a portrait of Frederick Douglass as a runaway slave. Douglass flees barefoot from two mounted pursuers who appear across the river behind him with their pack of dogs. Ahead, to the right, a signpost points toward New England. The cover's text states that The Fugitive's Song was composed and respectfully dedicated, in token of confident esteem to Frederick Douglass, 1845. Frederick Douglass (1818-1895) was an American social reformer, orator, writer and statesman. After escaping from slavery, he became a leader of the abolitionist movement, gaining note for his dazzling oratory and incisive antislavery writing. He stood as a living counter-example to slaveholders' arguments that slaves did not have the intellectual capacity to function as independent American citizens. | |
Lizenzart: | Lizenzpflichtig |
Credit: | Science Photo Library / LOC / Science Source |
Bildgröße: | 3055 px × 4500 px |
Modell-Rechte: | nicht erforderlich |
Eigentums-Rechte: | nicht erforderlich |
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