Envisioning Emancipation
Subtitle: Black Americans and the End of Slavery
Publisher: Temple University Press
Published: 2013
Place of publication: Philadelphia, USA
Language: eng
Number of pages: 223
ISBN-13: 9781439909850
Copyright date: 2013
Description: "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.
Table of contents: title: Preface and Acknowledgements
pagenum: ix; title: The Emancipation Proclamation
pagenum: xiii; title: Introduction
pagenum: 1; title: 1: Representing the Appeal
pagenum: 27; title: 2: A Collective Portrait of the Civil War
pagenum: 59; title: 3: Legacies of Emancipation
pagenum: 129; title: Notes
pagenum: 209; title: Index
pagenum: 217