Subject (Topic)
Antislavery movements--United States
Abolitionists--United States
Maryland--History
Middle Atlantic States
Public art
Public sculpture
Slavery--Maryland
Subject (Name)
Douglass, Frederick, 1818-1895
Subject (Object Type)
Commemorative sculpture
Inscription on granite base:
DOUGLASS
Inscription on bronze plaque on back of monument:
"In a composite nation like ours, as before the law, there should be no rich, no poor, no high, no low, no white, no black, but common country, common citizenship, equal rights and common destiny."
Frederick Douglass
1818-1895
United States Marshall * Charge d'Affaires to the Dominican Republic * Minister to Haiti * Counselor to President Abraham Lincoln * Publisher * Author * Orator * Abolitionist * Slave
Guy, Chris. "Douglass to Get Place by Easton Courthouse." The Baltimore Sun, March 17, 2004. Accessed October 31, 2019, https://www.baltimoresun.com/news/bs-xpm-2004-03-17-0403170268-story.html.
Douglass Returns: The Dedication, June 16-19, 2011. Program, The Town of Easton. Accessed May 23, 2020, https://eastonmd.gov/TempMedia/Douglass_booklet.pdf.