Eminent Colored Men Frederick Douglass 1884 Frame Style:Ebony Frame The Heroes and Leaders of

The Heroes and Leaders of the Colored People 1883 assembles Frederick Douglass and his contemporaries into a chromolithograph of Black achievement printed eighteen years after Appomattox — a composite portrait insisting

on a citizenship still being contested

hang above a defeated mantel

all framed by a horizon that refuses to end

The American Union 1861 — a title printed in the very year the Union ceased to be one

Eminent Colored Men Frederick Douglass 1884 Frame Style:Ebony Frame The Heroes and Leaders ofEminent Colored Men Frederick Douglass 1884 places the great orator at the center of a post war pantheon, his likeness drawn from the lithographer's deliberate hand nearly two decades after emancipation an assertion, in print, that Black achievement belonged on the wall beside the republic's other founders. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive the Library of Congress, the National Archives, regional