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Envisioning emancipation : Black Americans and the end of slavery / Deborah Willis and Barbara Krauthamer.

Title
Envisioning emancipation : Black Americans and the end of slavery / Deborah Willis and Barbara Krauthamer.
Author
Willis, Deborah, 1948-
Publication
Philadelphia : Temple University Press, 2013.

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Additional Authors
  • Krauthamer, Barbara, 1967-
  • Temple University Press publisher.
Description
xiv, 223 p. : ill.; 27 cm.
Summary
"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
Black Americans and the end of slavery
Subject
  • 1861-1877
  • African Americans > History > 1863-1877 > Pictorial works
  • African Americans > Portraits
  • Documentary photography > United States
  • Historiography and photography > United States
  • United States > African Americans > Civil War, 1861-1865 > Pictorial works
Genre/Form
  • History
  • Pictorial works
  • Portraits
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references and index.
Processing Action (note)
  • committed to retain
Contents
The Emancipation Proclamation -- Representing the appeal -- A Collective portrait of the Civil War -- Legacies of emancipation.
ISBN
  • 9781439909850 (cloth. : alk. paper)
  • 1439909857 (cloth : alk. paper)
  • 9781439909867 (pbk. : alk. paper)
  • 1439909865 (pbk. : alk. paper)
LCCN
^^2012032600
OCLC
  • 808244953
  • SCSB-10878560
Owning Institutions
Harvard Library