Was Frederick Douglass a handsome man?

Yes he's a great looking man. I'd say the most striking part about him are his eyes. People can copy his amazing beard. They can recreate the art that is his hair but nobody can get those eyes. read more

Yes he's a great looking man. I'd say the most striking part about him are his eyes. People can copy his amazing beard. They can recreate the art that is his hair but nobody can get those eyes. read more

During his own nineteenth century, handsome, eloquent Frederick Douglass was known as a "representative colored man," in that he seemed to be the most admirable example of "the Negro," and as "the best friend of his race," meaning that he spoke up indefatigably in what he saw as black people's interests. read more

Douglass presented the striking figure of a tall, handsome man possessed of a fine speaking voice, a leonine head, and lion’s fierce determination to match. Frederick Douglass told the story of his own life in slavery, the brutal treatment he had suffered, his struggle to teach himself to read, his longings for freedom and his two escapes, the second a successful one. read more