John Michael Vlach, Back of the Big House: The Architecture of Plantation Slavery (University of North Carolina Press, 1993). via UNC Press: "Behind the "Big Houses" of the antebellum South existed a different world, socially and architecturally, where slaves lived and worked. John Michael Vlach explores the structures and spaces that formed the slaves' environment. … Continue reading BOOK: Vlach on the Big House
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BLOGROLL/RESOURCE: Handler and Tuite on Louisiana Native Guards Photo Falsification
Jerome S. Handler and Michael L. Tuite, Jr. describe the fraudulent identification of a Civil War photograph of United States Colored Troops as members of the Confederate army's First Louisiana Native Guard: "The actual 1st Louisiana Native Guards, consisting of Afro-Creoles, was formed of about 1,500 men in April 1861 and was formally accepted as … Continue reading BLOGROLL/RESOURCE: Handler and Tuite on Louisiana Native Guards Photo Falsification
DIGITAL/SOURCE: Katz and Nyong’o Exhibit on Mary Jones and Print Culture | Outhistory
Jonathan Ned Katz and Tavia Nyong'o analyze the print material generated by the case of Mary Jones/Peter Sewally: "Katz and Nyong’o present "Visualizing the Man-Monster," an original on-line exhibit created for the debut of Pop-Up Soho, a production of the Pop-Up Museum of Queer History. "The Man-Monster was also seen on a computer at the … Continue reading DIGITAL/SOURCE: Katz and Nyong’o Exhibit on Mary Jones and Print Culture | Outhistory
BLOGROLL: Katz on Mary Jones, Gender, Slavery, and TransHistory | OutHistory
Jonathan Ned Katz analyzes the case of Mary Jones/Peter Sewally a sex worker of African descent arrested in 1830s New York: "Sewally's court testimony of 1836 provides us the earliest American evidence of a supportive link between female prostitutes and a man who, at least sometimes, had sex with men. The newspaper reports of that … Continue reading BLOGROLL: Katz on Mary Jones, Gender, Slavery, and TransHistory | OutHistory
BOOK: Fleetwood on Troubling Vision and Black Visuality
Fleetwood, Nicole R. Troubling Vision: Performance, Visuality, and Blackness. Chicago: University Of Chicago Press, 2011. "Troubling Vision addresses American culture’s fixation on black visibility, exploring how blackness is persistently seen as a problem in public culture and even in black scholarship that challenges racist discourse. Through trenchant analysis, Nicole R. Fleetwood reorients the problem of … Continue reading BOOK: Fleetwood on Troubling Vision and Black Visuality
BOOK: Cobb on Remaking Black Visuality in the Early Nineteenth Century | Books | NYU Press
Jasmine Nichole Cobb, Picture Freedom: Remaking Black Visuality in the Early Nineteenth Century. New York: NYU Press, 2015. via NYU Press: "In the decades leading up to the end of U.S. slavery, many free Blacks sat for daguerreotypes decorated in fine garments to document their self-possession. People pictured in these early photographs used portraiture to seize … Continue reading BOOK: Cobb on Remaking Black Visuality in the Early Nineteenth Century | Books | NYU Press
Cobb on “What Does Black Freedom Look Like?” | @LeftofBlack
Jasmine Cobb on black visuality via Left of Black: "On this episode of Left of Black on The Root Jasmine Nichole Cobb talk about her new book, Picture Freedom: Remaking Black Visuality in the Early Nineteenth Century (NYU Press). Cobb is an Assistant Professor in the Departments of Art, Art History, and Visual Studies, and … Continue reading Cobb on “What Does Black Freedom Look Like?” | @LeftofBlack
Berry on #UndergroundWGN and “The Modern Story of Enslaved Runaways” | Process History @The_OAH
Berry writes: "As a scholar of the enslaved and someone who studies slavery, I was not sure if a made-for-television modern story of runaways would fully capture the depth of characters who populated plantations across the South..." #UndergroundWGN
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Rogers on Researching the Zealy Dagguerreotypes of Slaves (2012)
In 2012, at Mirror of Race, Molly Rogers reflected on the Jacques Zealy daguerreotypes of South Carolina slaves (now held by Harvard University). In the summer of 1976, employees of Harvard University’s Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology discovered fifteen daguerreotypes in the museum attic. The photographs were made in 1850 and they depict five … Continue reading Rogers on Researching the Zealy Dagguerreotypes of Slaves (2012)
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