The horrible gift of freedom : Atlantic slavery and the representation of emancipation

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Title:

Author:

Wood, Marcus.

Personal Author:

Wood, Marcus.

Publication Information:

Athens : University of Georgia Press, [2010]

Physical Description:

xvi, 442 pages, 12 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 25 cm.

Series:

Race in the Atlantic world, 1700-1900

Race in the Atlantic world, 1700-1900.

General Note:

"A Sarah Mills Hodge Fund publications"--T.p. verso.

Language:

English

Contents:

"The horrible gift of freedom" : an odd title? -- The arts and craft of freedom : picturing liberty and the free slave -- Pragmatic popular propagations of the emancipation moment -- No-go areas and the emancipation moment : running-dancing-revolting slaves -- Stamping out the memory of slavery : the 2007 commemoratives and philatelic approaches to bondage and freedom -- Supine in perpetuity : the description of the Brookes in 2007 -- The horrible gift of freedom and the 1807/2007 bicentennial.

Subject Term:

Slavery in art.

Liberty in art.

Slaves -- Emancipation.

ISBN:

9780820334264

9780820334271

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