The horrible gift of freedom
Subtitle: Atlantic slavery and the representation of emancipation
By: Marcus Wood.
Series: Race in the Atlantic world, 1700-1900
Publisher: University of Georgia Press
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Athens
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780820334264; 9780820334271
Subjects: Slavery in art; Liberty in art; Slaves -- Emancipation; Race relations
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: "The horrible gift of freedom" : an odd title?; title: The arts and craft of freedom : picturing liberty and the free slave; title: Pragmatic popular propagations of the emancipation moment; title: No-go areas and the emancipation moment : running-dancing-revolting slaves; title: Stamping out the memory of slavery : the 2007 commemoratives and philatelic approaches to bondage and freedom; title: Supine in perpetuity : the description of the Brookes in 2007; title: The horrible gift of freedom and the 1807/2007 bicentennial.