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Type: BOOK - Published: 2022-11-15 - Publisher: Univ of California Press

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From abolitionist medallions to statues of bondspeople bearing broken chains, sculpture gave visual and material form to narratives about the end of slavery in
The Sun King at Sea
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Authors: Meredith Martin
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Type: BOOK - Published: 2022-01-04 - Publisher: Getty Publications

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This richly illustrated volume, the first devoted to maritime art and galley slavery in early modern France, shows how royal propagandists used the image and la
Portraits of Resistance
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Categories: Art
Type: BOOK - Published: 2022-01-01 - Publisher: Yale University Press

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A highly original history of American portraiture that places the experiences of enslaved people at its center This timely and eloquent book tells a new hist
Committed to Memory
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How an eighteenth-century engraving of a slave ship became a cultural icon of Black resistance, identity, and remembrance One of the most iconic images of slave
Slaves Waiting for Sale
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Authors: Maurie D. McInnis
Categories: Art
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In 1853, Eyre Crowe, a young British artist, visited a slave auction in Richmond, Virginia. Harrowed by what he witnessed, he captured the scene in sketches tha