Exposing Slavery: Photography, Human Bondage, and the Birth of Modern Visual Politics in America
Matthew
Fox-Amato
Oxford University Press
Exposing Slavery explores how photography altered and was, in turn, shaped by conflicts over human bondage. Drawing on an original source base that includes hundreds of unpublished and little-studied photographs of slaves, ex-slaves, free African Americans, and abolitionists, as well as written archival materials, it puts visual culture at the center of understanding the experience of late slavery.