Picture Freedom : Remaking Black Visuality in the Early Nineteenth Century / Jasmine Nichole Cobb.
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TextSeries: America and the Long 19th Century ; 20Publisher: New York, NY : New York University Press, [2015]Copyright date: ©2015Description: 1 online resource : 51 black and white illustrations, 20 Illustrations, colorContent type: - 9781479817221
- 9781479830619
- African Americans in popular culture -- History -- 19th century
- African Americans -- History -- To 1863
- Free African Americans -- History -- 19th century -- Pictorial works
- Free African Americans -- History -- 19th century
- Pictures -- Social aspects -- United States -- History -- 19th century
- Popular culture -- United States -- History -- 19th century
- Racism in popular culture -- United States -- History -- 19th century
- Slavery -- Social aspects -- United States -- History -- 19th century
- Visual communication -- United States -- History -- 19th century
- SOCIAL SCIENCE / Ethnic Studies / African American Studies
- 305.896073009034 23
- E185.18 .C62 2016
- online - DeGruyter
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In the decades leading up to the end of U.S. slavery, many free Blacks sat for daguerreotypes decorated in fine garments to document their self-possession. People pictured in these early photographs used portraiture to seize control over representation of the free Black body and reimagine Black visuality divorced from the cultural logics of slavery. In Picture Freedom, Jasmine Nichole Cobb analyzes the ways in which the circulation of various images prepared free Blacks and free Whites for the emancipation of formerly unfree people of African descent. She traces the emergence of Black freedom as both an idea and as an image during the early nineteenth century. Through an analysis of popular culture of the period-including amateur portraiture, racial caricatures, joke books, antislavery newspapers, abolitionist materials, runaway advertisements, ladies' magazines, and scrapbooks, as well as scenic wallpaper-Cobb explores the earliest illustrations of free Blacks and reveals the complicated route through visual culture toward a vision of African American citizenship. Picture Freedom reveals how these depictions contributed to public understandings of nationhood, among both domestic eyes and the larger Atlantic world.
Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
In English.
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