Rediscovering the Life and Legacy of James McCune Smith

Описание: Born in New York in 1813, James McCune Smith became the first university-trained African American physician in the United States. But he was also an abolitionist who worked with Frederick Douglass and other prominent Americans of his day to fight against slavery.

Rediscover this forgotten American at DiMenna Children's History Museum. Learn more: http://historydetectives.nyhistory.or...

MUSIC
Title: Juniper
Music: Kevin MacLeod
License: CC BY 3.0 (http://goo.gl/BlcHZR)
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ISRC: USUAN1100186
© 2004 Kevin MacLeod

PHOTOS
Patrick H. Reason (1816-1898), James McCune Smith (1813–1865) (detail), ca. 1850, Engraving, The New-York Historical Society,Gift of A.D.F Randolph and Co., 1868

Frederick Douglass, The Colored Champion of Freedom, 1872-1874. Lithograph. New York: Currier & Ives. New-York Historical Society, Gift of Daniel Parish Jr., 1906

Henry Highland Garnet (1815-1882) from William J. Simmons, Men of Mark: Eminent, Progressive and Rising. Cleveland, Ohio : Geo. M. Rewell & Co., 1887. New-York Historical Society.

William J. Bennett, (1811-1871). South Street from Maiden Lane, drawn 1828, published 1834. Aquatint. New-York Historical Society

Fugitive Slaves, undated. Broadside. The Rauner Special Collections Library, Dartmouth College Library

My bondage and my freedom. With an introduction by James McCune Smith. Frederick Douglass 1818-1895. New York, Miller, Orton and Mulligan; 1855. New-York Historical Society, CT.D7375 A2.

Anti-Phrenology Lecture Ad, September 16, 1837. The Colored American. Newspaper. New-York Historical Society, 50983.

Letter from James McCune Smith to Horace Greely, February 1, 1844. Newspaper. New-York Historical Society, 78911d.

School room no. 2 in Colored Orphan Asylum, west side of Fifth Avenue between 43-44th Streets, New York City. Shows female teacher addressing rows of uniformed children. 59133.
Stereo by unidentified photographer, taken Good Friday, 1861.

Slave pen, Alexandria, Va. Civil War stereographs, 1861-1865.
Photographic history. The war for the Union. War views.
Brady & Co. (Washington, D.C.). E. & H.T. Anthony (Firm). ca.1861-ca.1865. New-York Historical Society, 2266.