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

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

Author/creator	Wood, Marcus
Format	Book and Print
Publication Info	Athens : University of Georgia Press, ©2010.
Description	xvi, 442 pages, 12 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 25 cm.
Subject(s)	Slavery in art. Liberty in art. Enslaved persons--Emancipation Race relations.

Series	Race in the Atlantic world, 1700-1900 Race in the Atlantic world, 1700-1900. ^A1030518
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.
General note	"A Sarah Mills Hodge Fund publications"--T.p. verso.
Bibliography note	Includes bibliographical references and index.
LCCN	2009026743
ISBN	9780820334264 (hardcover : alk. paper)
ISBN	082033426X (hardcover : alk. paper)
ISBN	9780820334271 (pbk. : alk. paper)
ISBN	0820334278 (pbk. : alk. paper)

Library	Location	Call Number	Status	Item Actions
Joyner	General Stacks	N8243.S576 W663 2010	✔ Available	Place Hold