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

Exposing Slavery: Photography, Human Bondage, and the Birth of Modern Visual Politics in America

Matthew Fox-Amato

360 pages 2019

2 editions

nonfiction history challenging informative slow-paced
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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 ho...

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