Who was Frederick Douglass? (1895)

Frederick Douglass, who was born a slave in Talbot county, Maryland, in 1817, was the one conspicuous anti-slavery agitator who spoke of the wrongs and cruelty of slavery from personal experience.

Civil war leaders (1863-1865)

These drawings come from 'A history of the Civil War, 1861-1865, and the causes that led up to the great conflict,' compiled from the official records of the War Department and published in 1912.