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  "path": "/2026/06/29/photography-was-frederick-douglass-most-powerful-tool-for-abolition/",
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  "textContent": "Famed abolitionist, writer, and civil rights leader Frederick Douglass was pioneering and influential in his use of photography in the 19th-century abolitionist movement. For Douglass and his peers, the camera was a potent weapon in the fight for the rights and freedoms of Black Americans.\n\n[Read More]",
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