On Frederick Douglass
New Books in African American Studies
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The Power of Art
The photos were a marketing ploy. They helped to spread douglas's image across the country, but they also reflected his deeper belief in the power of art. One of the things that he mentioned when he wrote about photography is that photography that won the truth. Value of photography was a powerful blow against raceism and slavery too. Douglas used art to say to highlight the degree which all humans are fundamentally in thePower of their imagination. Only humans can think outside the present and imagine a better future and reflect on the past.
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