Exposing slavery : photography, human bondage, and the birth of modern visual politics in America /

Within a few years of the invention of the first commercially successful photography process in 1839, American slaveholders had already begun commissioning photographic portraits of their slaves. Ex-slaves-turned-abolitionists such as Frederick Douglass also came to see how sitting for a portrait co...

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Main Author: Fox-Amato, Matthew (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Oxford University Press, [2019]
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Call Number: E449 .F768 2019
 
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