Black Images Matter: How Cameras Helped—and Sometimes Harmed—Black People

Share this on WhatsApp In the 19th century, the most photographed man⁠ in the world wasn’t Walt Whitman or Ulysses S. Grant or even Abraham Lincoln⁠. It was Frederick Douglass. The famous orator and abolitionist was known for using his eloquent voice to impart the horrors of slavery, which he had experienced firsthand. He traveled all … Continue reading Black Images Matter: How Cameras Helped—and Sometimes Harmed—Black People