Fighting for freedom : Black craftspeople and the pursuit of independence /
"As the companion to the exhibition, Fighting for Freedom places Black craftspeople at the forefront of American history, from before the Revolutionary War through the Civil War and beyond Reconstruction. Delving into diverse narratives of creativity, resilience, and triumph in the quest for fr...
| Uniform Title: | Fighting for freedom (DAR Museum (Washington, D.C.)) |
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| Other Authors: | , , |
| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Chapel Hill :
The University of North Carolina Press,
[2025]
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Table of Contents:
- Foreword / Pamela Wright and Susan Metzger
- Preface / Carroll Van West
- Artist's statement / Robell Awake
- Black decorative arts exhibitions, then and now / Tiffany N. Momon
- Carving a vision of freedom: Edmonia Lewis and Black representation during the Fight for Emancipation / Lauren Applebaum
- Crafting community : cabinetmakers of color from Saint-Domingue in New Orleans / Lydia Blackmore
- Literacy as freedom : Dave the Potter and the act of inscribing / Susan J. Rawles
- Considering the Black laundress as radical crafter / Aleia M. Brown
- Bred to a good trade : enslaved furniture artisans in Philadelphia, 1750-1800 / Alexandra Alevizatos Kirtley
- Robert Duncanson, painter and glazier: enslaved and free Black men's artistic production in the early United States / Jennifer Van Horn
- State craft: Robert K. Griffin and the Black American artisans of the Liberian Senate / R. Ruthie Dibble
- Mestre de luy mesme : François Mentor, free silversmith of color in colonial Canada / Philippe L.B. Halbert
- Exhibition catalog of objects
- Selected bibliography
- Contributors
- Index.