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Frederick Douglass didn’t smile in any pictures.why not


Sagot :

Answer:

he wanted to counter “happy slave” caricatures that were common at the time

My Answer:

Frederick Douglass chose to not smile in those photographs as he doesn’t want to be portrayed as a ‘happy slave' and rather prefers to show the “face of a fugitive slave.”