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Dec 4, 2019 · by Sabrina Imbler December 4, 2019. The daguerreotype within its original leather frame. Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art. The image is simple and haunting. Ten enslaved African-American people...
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Feb 20, 2019 · Douglass is the most photographed man of the 19th century, having sat for more than 150 portraits [see page 25]. Recognizing the import of images, he took the opportunity as frequently as possible to document his own image as a dignified, self-determined black man. Left: Ambrotype of Frederick Douglass, 1855-1865.
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- Antique colorized photo of the United States: Picking cotton.
- Antique black and white photograph: Sugar cane field, Cuba.
- Antique black and white photo of the United States: Picking cotton.
- Freedom: breaking chains African american hands and arms.
The images in Slavery Images: A Visual Record of the African Slave Trade and Slave Life in the Early African Diaspora have been selected from a wide range of sources, most of them dating from the period of slavery before c. 1900. Our growing collection currently has over 1,200 images. This website is envisioned as a tool and a resource that can ...
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The widely circulated image of the enslaved man's wounds helped turn white Northerners against slavery.
A picture can speak volumes. In the case of an escaped enslaved man who came to be called "Whipped Peter," an 1863 photo of his savagely scarred back helped raise a national outcry against the cruelty of slavery.
By the time Peter had made it to a Union encampment in Baton Rouge in March 1863, he had been through hell. Bloodhounds had chased him. He had been pursued for miles, had run barefoot through creeks and across fields. He had survived, if barely. When he reached the soldiers, Peter’s clothing was ragged and soaked with mud and sweat.
But his 10-day ordeal was nothing compared to what he had already been through. During Peter's enslavement on John and Bridget Lyons’ Louisiana plantation, Peter endured not just the indignity of slavery, but a brutal whipping that nearly took his life. And when he joined the Union Army after his escape from slavery, Peter exposed his scars during a medical examination.
Raised welts and strafe marks crisscrossed his back. The marks extended from his buttocks to his shoulders, calling to mind the viciousness and power with which he had been beaten. It was a hideous constellation of scars: visual proof of the brutality of slavery. And for thousands of white people, it was a shocking image that helped fuel the fires of abolition during the Civil War.
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IN SLAVERY. PHOTOGRAPHS: 1847-1863 *. AFRICAN-BORN ENSLAVED MEN, named Renty and Fassena by their slaveholders, near Columbia, South Carolina, March 1850. Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology, Harvard University. 2. LUCY, HOLDING CHARLOTTE, A WHITE CHILD, ca. 1845. Kentucky Gateway Museum Center, Maysville, Kentucky / Library of Congress.
Oct 29, 2019 · The goal was to look at black life almost 50 years after slavery. The Story Jefferson Lewis Edmonds was born an enslaved person in Crawford, Miss. He learned to read and write in the Freedmen’s ...
