Frederick Douglass (1817–1895) was an American social reformer, abolitionist, orator, writer, and statesman. After escaping from slavery in Maryland, he became a national leader of the abolitionist movement in Massachusetts and New York, becoming famous for his oratory and incisive antislavery writings. Accordingly, he was described by abolitionists in his time as a living counterexample to slaveholders' arguments that slaves lacked the intellectual capacity to function as independent American citizens. Likewise, Northerners at the time found it hard to believe that such a great orator had once been a slave. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frederick_Douglass
Mural by Ross Blair (aka Trenchone) at Lower Gilmore Place, Edinburgh. The Mural site is in the area where Fredrick Douglass was resident while in Edinburgh in 1846. Mural was created with Consultation with Local community and BLM Mural Trail 2020.
Picture by Melissa Highton CC BY-SA 4.0 w.wiki/3UvS
In 2021 UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson presented US President Joe Biden with a framed print of this image, at the G7 summit
See Boris Johnson presented Joe Biden with my photo of Frederick Douglass to mark their first meeting by Melissa Highton at the University of Edinburgh
thinking.is.ed.ac.uk/melissa/2021/06/10/joe-biden/