David A. Henry supplies the following:

Ambrose Hilliard Douglas (1845-1940). Ambrose Douglas was the son of Albert and Betsy Douglas. He believed himself to be born a free man in Detroit. His parents, originally born in North Carolina, returned to the South for he purpose of visiting relatives, but were enslaved, including the young Ambrose. He remained in slavery for 21 years, most of the time in Harnett County, North Carolina. Ambrose was one not to be held against his will if he could help it, and attempted to run at every chance he had. When he was returned to his owner, he was immediately sold. No owner ever received his money's worth out of him, because, as he put it "I worked as long as they stood over me, then I ran around with the gals or sneaked off into the woods." At the age of 21, he was once again a free man, and intended to stay that way. He moved to Madison County, FL. He married, had a child, and said that if he had known there would be 37 more to come, he would have "stopped right there" (at the first child). He was a handy man, building and fixing houses and doing whatever yard work he could find. After learning of the concrete industry in Hernando County, he moved to Brooksville, with his large family. After his first wife died, he married a girl 13 years of age, and had a child that same year, he being 74. Together, they had 13 children, his last child born one year before this picture was taken of him, in 1937. He was, at the age of 92, the father of 38 children, some of whom died young. He worked until he was 91 in the phosphate mines, when they began paying pensions. He was a very hard working man, and even as he was forced to retire from the mines, he tried to work for the WPA; however they told him he was too old. He was highly insulted. Mr. Douglas died just a year and half after this photograph was taken.