Details
Contributor Root, M. A. (Marcus Aurelius), 1808-1888, photographer.
Sartain, John, 1808-1897, engraver.
Title Douglass, Margaret.
Alternate title [Margaret Douglass] / Daguerreotyped by Root.-- engraved by Sartain.
Publisher [Boston? : s.n.]
Date [1854?]
Physical description 1 print : engraving ; 14.3 x 8.9 cm.
Description Waist-length portrait of Douglass.
Notes In Educational laws of Virginia / The personal narrative of Mrs. Margaret Douglass, a southern woman, who was imprisoned for one month in the common jail of Norfolk, under the laws of Virginia, for the crime of teaching free colored children to read (Boston, 1854), frontispiece.
Facsimile signature: Margaret Douglass.
Douglass established a small school for free black children, teaching them to read and write in her home. For this offense, she spent a month imprisoned in jail in Norfolk, Virginia.
Genre Portrait prints -- 1850-1859.
Engravings -- 1850-1859.
Subject Douglass, Margaret -- Portraits.
African Americans -- Books and reading.
Women educators.
Afro-Americana.
Women.
Is part of Portraits of American Women
Has format TMP.objres.7407.jpg