- Description
- 1 online resource (xiii, 304 pages) : illustrations.
- Summary
- "The abolition of Russian serfdom in 1861 and American slavery in 1865 transformed both nations as Russian peasants and African Americans gained new rights as subjects and citizens. During the second half of the long nineteenth century, Americans and Russians responded to these societal transformations through a fascinating array of new cultural productions. Analyzing portrayals of African Americans and Russian serfs in oil paintings, advertisements, fiction, poetry, and ephemera housed in American and Russian archives, Amanda Brickell Bellows argues that these widely circulated depictions shaped collective memory of slavery and serfdom, affected the development of national consciousness, and influenced public opinion as peasants and freedpeople strove to exercise their newfound rights"--
- Uniform Title
- American slavery and Russian serfdom in the Post-Emancipation imagination (Online)
- Alternative Title
- American slavery and Russian serfdom in the Post-Emancipation imagination (Online)
- Subject
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [269]-292) and index.
- Access (note)
- Access restricted to authorized users.
- Contents
- Radical literature on the eve of emancipations -- Popular historical fiction -- Illustrated periodicals and lithographs -- Oil paintings -- Advertisements and ephemera -- Literature and visual culture at the turn of the twentieth century.
- LCCN
- 2019046673
- OCLC
- ssj0002279301
- Author
Bellows, Amanda Brickell.
- Title
American slavery and Russian serfdom in the Post-Emancipation imagination [electronic resource] / Amanda Brickell Bellows.
- Imprint
Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, [2020]
- Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages [269]-292) and index.
- Access
Access restricted to authorized users.
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