Picture of Slavery in the United States of America

• Author : George Bourne
• Publisher : Unknown
• Release Date : 1834
• ISBN : NYPL:33433075911556

• Author : George Bourne
• Publisher : Unknown
• Release Date : 1838
• ISBN : LCCN:11006910

• Author : Matthew Fox-Amato
• Publisher : Oxford University Press
• Release Date : 2019-03-01
• ISBN : 9780190663957

Within a few years of the introduction of photography into the United States in 1839, slaveholders had already begun commissioning photographic portraits of their slaves. Ex-slaves-turned-abolitionists such as Frederick Douglass had come to see how sitting for a portrait could help them project humanity and dignity amidst northern racism. In the first decade of the medium, enslaved people had begun entering southern daguerreotype studios of their own volition, posing for cameras, and leaving with visual treasures they could keep in their

• Author : Rev. George BOURNE (of New York.)
• Publisher : Unknown
• Release Date : 1838
• ISBN : BL:A0020280505

• Author : United States
• Publisher : Unknown
• Release Date : 1835
• ISBN : BL:A0019028508

• Author : Nikole Hannah-Jones,The New York Times Magazine
• Publisher : One World
• Release Date : 2021-11-16
• ISBN : 9780593230589

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A dramatic expansion of a groundbreaking work of journalism, The 1619 Project: A New Origin Story offers a profoundly revealing vision of the American past and present. ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: The Washington Post, NPR, Esquire, Marie Claire, Electric Lit, Ms. magazine, Kirkus Reviews, Booklist In late August 1619, a ship arrived in the British colony of Virginia bearing a cargo of twenty to thirty enslaved people from Africa. Their arrival led to the

• Author : Catherine M. Lewis,J. Richard Lewis
• Publisher : University of Arkansas Press
• Release Date : 2011-03-01
• ISBN : 9781557289582

Women and Slavery offers readers an opportunity to examine the establishment, growth, and evolution of slavery in the United States as it impacted women-enslaved and free, African American and white, wealthy and poor, northern and southern. The primary documents-including newspaper articles, broadsides, cartoons, pamphlets, speeches, photographs, memoirs, and editorials-are organized thematically and represent cultural, political, religious, economic, and social perspectives on this dark and complex period in American history.

• Author : Harriet Beecher Stowe
• Publisher : Cosimo, Inc.
• Release Date : 2009-01-01
• ISBN : 9781605206240

It is the best known book about American slavery, and was so incendiary upon its first publication in 1852 that it actually ignited the social flames that led to Civil War less than a decade later. What began as a series of sketches for the Cincinnati abolitionist newspaper The National Era scandalized the North, was banned in the South, and ultimately became the bestselling novel of the 19th century. Today, controversy over this melodramatic tale of the dignified slave Tom, the

• Author : Edward E Baptist
• Publisher : Basic Books
• Release Date : 2016-10-25
• ISBN : 9780465097685

Winner of the 2015 Avery O. Craven Prize from the Organization of American Historians Winner of the 2015 Sidney Hillman Prize A groundbreaking history demonstrating that America's economic supremacy was built on the backs of slaves Americans tend to cast slavery as a pre-modern institution -- the nation's original sin, perhaps, but isolated in time and divorced from America's later success. But to do so robs the millions who suffered in bondage of their full legacy. As historian Edward E. Baptist reveals

• Author : Stephanie E. Jones-Rogers
• Publisher : Yale University Press
• Release Date : 2020-01-07
• ISBN : 9780300251838

Winner of the Los Angeles Times Book Prize in History A bold and searing investigation into the role of white women in the American slave economy “Compelling.”—Renee Graham, Boston Globe “Stunning.”—Rebecca Onion, Slate “Makes a vital contribution to our understanding of our past and present.”—Parul Sehgal, New York Times Bridging women’s history, the history of the South, and African American history, this book makes a bold argument about the role of white women in American slavery.

• Author : Henry Louis Gates (Jr.),Donald Yacovone
• Publisher : Smiley Books
• Release Date : 2013
• ISBN : 9781401935146

Chronicles five hundred years of African-American history from the origins of slavery on the African continent through Barack Obama's second presidential term, examining contributing political and cultural events.

• Author : Douglas A. Blackmon
• Publisher : Icon Books
• Release Date : 2012-10-04
• ISBN : 9781848314139

A Pulitzer Prize-winning history of the mistreatment of black Americans. In this 'precise and eloquent work' - as described in its Pulitzer Prize citation - Douglas A. Blackmon brings to light one of the most shameful chapters in American history - an 'Age of Neoslavery' that thrived in the aftermath of the Civil War through the dawn of World War II. Using a vast record of original documents and personal narratives, Blackmon unearths the lost stories of slaves and their

• Author : Clint Smith
• Publisher : Little, Brown
• Release Date : 2021-06-01
• ISBN : 9780316492911

Instant #1 New York Times Bestseller Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award for Nonfiction Winner of the Stowe Prize Winner of 2022 Hillman Prize for Book Journalism PEN America 2022 John Kenneth Galbraith Award for Nonfiction Finalist A New York Times 10 Best Books of 2021 A Time 10 Best Nonfiction Books of 2021 Named a Best Book of 2021 by The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Boston Globe, The Economist, Smithsonian, Esquire, Entropy, The Christian Science Monitor, WBEZ's Nerdette Podcast, TeenVogue, GoodReads, SheReads,

• Author : Olaudah Equiano
• Publisher : The Floating Press
• Release Date : 2009-07-01
• ISBN : 9781775416197

The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano, written in 1789, details its writer's life in slavery, his time spent serving on galleys, the eventual attainment of his own freedom and later success in business. Including a look at how slavery stood in West Africa, the book received favorable reviews and was one of the first slave narratives to be read widely.

• Author : Raphael E. Rogers
• Publisher : Routledge
• Release Date : 2018-05-16
• ISBN : 9781351730648

Drawing on critical race theory, critical race feminism, critical multicultural analysis, and intertextuality this book examines how slavery is represented in contemporary children’s picture books. Through analysis of recently published picture books about slavery, Rogers discusses how these books engage with and respond to the historiography of the institution of slavery. Exploring how contemporary writers and illustrators have represented the institution of slavery, Rogers presents a critical and responsible approach for reading and using picture books in K-12 classrooms