Research Catalog

Details

Additional authors

1. Krauthamer, Barbara, 1967-
2. Temple University Press publisher

Description

1. xiv, 223 p. : ill.; 27 cm.

Summary

1. "In this pioneering book, renowned photographic historian Deborah Willis and historian of slavery Barbara Krauthamer have amassed nearly 150 photographs--some never before published--from the antebellum days of the 1850s through the New Deal era of the 1930s. The authors vividly display the seismic impact of emancipation on African Americans born before and after the Proclamation, providing a perspective on freedom and slavery and a way to understand the photos as documents of engagement, action, struggle, and aspiration ... From photos of the enslaved on plantations and African American soldiers and camp workers in the Union Army to Juneteenth celebrations, slave reunions, and portraits of black families and workers in the American South, the images in this book challenge perceptions of slavery. They show not only what the subjects emphasized about themselves but also the ways Americans of all colors and genders opposed slavery and marked its end."--Book jacket.

Alternative title

1. Black Americans and the end of slavery

Subject

1. 1861-1877
2. American Civil War > (United States : > 1861-1865)
3. Portraits
4. Pictorial works
5. History
6. Historiography and photography > United States
7. Documentary photography > United States
8. United States > History > Civil War, 1861-1865 > African Americans > Pictorial works
9. African Americans > Portraits
10. African Americans > History > 1863-1877 > Pictorial works

Genre/Form

1. History
2. Pictorial works
3. Portraits

Contents

1. The Emancipation Proclamation -- Representing the appeal -- A Collective portrait of the Civil War -- Legacies of emancipation.

Owning institution

1. Harvard Library

Bibliography (note)

1. Includes bibliographical references and index.

Processing action (note)

1. committed to retain