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Marcus Aurelius Root 
Margaret Douglass 
1854 (?) 
  
Engraving 
Library Company of Philadelphia 
 
LL/52605 
  
Daguerreotyped by Root.-- engraved by Sartain.
 
In The personal narrative of Mrs. Margaret Douglass, a southern woman, who was imprisoned for one month in the common jail of Norfolk, under the laws of Virginia, for the crime of teaching free colored children to read Boston : John P. Jewitt & Co.; Cleveland, O., Jewett and Worthington, 1854), frontispiece.
 
Douglass established a small school for free black children, teaching them to read and write in her home. For this offense, she spent a month imprisoned in jail in Norfolk, Virginia. 
 

 
  
 
  
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