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Author:

Wood, Marcus.

Title:

The horrible gift of freedom : Atlantic slavery and the representation of emancipation / Marcus Wood.

Publisher:

University of Georgia Press,

Copyright Date:

c2010

Description:

xvi, 442 p., [12] p. of plates : ill. (some col.) ; 25 cm.

Subject:

Slavery in art.
Liberty in art.
Slaves--Emancipation.
Race relations.

Notes:

"A Sarah Mills Hodge Fund publications"--T.p. verso. Includes bibliographical references and index.

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.

Series:

Race in the Atlantic world, 1700-1900.

ISBN:

0820334278 (pbk. : alk. paper)
9780820334271 (pbk. : alk. paper)
082033426X (hardcover : alk. paper)
9780820334264 (hardcover : alk. paper)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)318869627

LCCN:

2009026743

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

PRAX771 -- Cowles Library (Des Moines)

OIAX792 -- Grinnell College (Grinnell)