“I never felt more entirely out of my sphere than when presuming to write in an Album,” Frederick Douglass noted in his 1850 contribution. His business-like, self-taught handwriting fills the page withan apology for his rougher contribution to an album
Sarah Mapps Douglass was a teacher, an artist, a writer, an activist, a lecturer, and a poet. Born in Philadelphia on 1806, Douglass was the daughter of and Robert Douglass, a hairdresser, and Grace Bustill Douglass, a milliner and a
William Lloyd Garrison was a prominent abolitionist and journalist, born on December 10, 1805. After his father died in 1808, he was raised in poverty by his devoutly religious mother. After running away from his carpentry apprenticeship, Garrison found work