Antislavery Meeting This daguerreotype (an early form of photograph) shows the abolitionist Frederick Douglass seated at a table beside a Quaker woman, with two other former slaves from Washington, D.C., Mary and Emily Edmondson, standing behind him. The open-air meeting in Cazenovia, New York, was held on August 22, 1850, to protest the impending passage of the Fugitive Slave Act, which penalized individuals who aided escaped slaves. The Granger Collection, New York