WHAT DID DAVID RUGGLES LOOK LIKE?

What did David Ruggles Look Like?
As Public Art For Racial Justice Education dives deeper into our Sister Mural project we examine one of the themes of the Norwich mural, David Ruggles (1810 - 1849). A contemporary of Frederick Douglass, Ruggles was active in the underground railroad and owned the first Black-owned bookstore in New York.)

Since murals are visual artworks, we started wondering “What did David Ruggles look like?”