David Ruggles
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David Ruggles was an African-American abolitionist in New York who resisted slavery by his participation in a Committee of Vigilance, which worked on the Underground Railroad to help fugitive slaves r
The Disappointed Abolitionists (1838) by artist Edward Williams Clay and lithographer Henry R. Robinson, cartoon of Ruggles (center), with Isaac T. Hopper on his left and Barney Corse on his right, confronting John P. Darg in 1838
David Ruggles Junior High School in New York City
Readable pdf of the First Annual Report of the New York Committee of Vigilance, David Ruggles as secretary
Frederick Douglass
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Frederick Douglass was an American social reformer, abolitionist, orator, writer, and statesman. He was "the most important leader of the movement for African-American civil rights in the 19th century
David Ruggles
…was the prototype for black activist journalists of his time." He claimed to have led more than 600 fugitive slaves to freedom in the North, including Frederick Douglass, who became a friend and fellow activist. Ruggles opened the first African-American bookstore in 1834. Ruggles was born in Norwich, Connecticut, in…
Douglass, c. 1879
Anna Murray Douglass, Douglass's wife for 44 years, portrait c. 1860
Douglass, c. 1840s, in his 20s
The home and meetinghouse of the Johnsons, where Douglass and his wife lived in New Bedford, Massachusetts