Exposing Slavery: Photography, Human Bondage, and the Birth of Modern Visual Politics in America 1st Matthew Fox-Amato

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• ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0190663936
• ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0190663933
• Author(s): Matthew Fox-Amato

Within a few years of the introduction of photography into the United States in 1839, slaveholders had already begun commissioning photographic portraits of their slaves. Ex-slaves-turned-abolitionists such as Frederick Douglass had come to see how sitting for a portrait could help them project humanity and dignity amidst northern racism. In the first decade of the medium, enslaved people had begun entering southern daguerreotype studios of their own volition, posing for cameras, and leaving with visual treasures they could keep in their pockets. And, as the Civil War raged, Union soldiers would orchestrate pictures with fugitive slaves that envisioned racial hierarchy as slavery fell. In these ways and others, from the earliest days of the medium to the first moments of emancipation, photography powerfully influenced how bondage and freedom were documented, imagined, and contested. By 1865, it would be difficult for many Americans to look back upon slavery and its fall without thinking of a photograph.

Table contents:

Introduction
1. Policing Personhood
2. Enduring Images
3. Realizing Abolition
4. Domesticating Freedom
Epilogue: The Photographic Legacy of American Slavery
Notes
Introduction
Chapter 1: Policing Personhood
Chapter 2: Enduring Images
Chapter 3: Realizing Abolition
Chapter 4: Domesticating Freedom
Epilogue: The Photographic Legacy of American Slavery
Bibliography
Index

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