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Photograph of Frederick Douglass, an American abolitionist, editor, orator, author, statesman and reformer.

He was born a slave in Talbot County, Maryland under the name Frederick Augustus Washington Bailey and later became known as Frederick Douglass. Douglass was the minister-resident and consul-general to the Republic of Haiti (1889-1891). After two years in Haiti, he resigned his ambassadorship due to disagreements with U.S. government policy.

Source: Thompson, J.W. (1903) History of the Douglass Monument. Rochester: Rochester Herald Press.