Format:
Book
Author:
McInnis, Maurie Dee, author.
Title:
Slaves waiting for sale : abolitionist art and the American slave trade / Maurie D. McInnis.
Publisher, Date:
Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2011.
Description:
viii, 268 pages, 12 colored plates : illustrations, maps ; 26 cm
Summary:
In 1853, Eyre Crowe, a young British artist, visited a slave auction in Richmond, Virginia. Harrowed by what he witnessed, he captured the scene in sketches that he would later develop into a series of illustrations and paintings, including the culminating painting, Slaves Waiting for Sale, Richmond, Virginia. This innovative uses Crowe's paintings to explore the texture of the slave trade in Richmond, Charleston, and New Orleans, the evolving iconography of abolitionist art, and the role of visual culture in the transatlantic world of abolitionism. Tracing Crowe's trajectory from Richmond across the American South and back to London-where his paintings were exhibited just a few weeks after the start of the Civil War- Maurie D. McInnis illuminates not only how his abolitionist art was inspired and made, but also how it influenced the international public's grasp of slavery in America. With almost 140 illustrations, this book brings a fresh perspective to the American slave trade and abolitionism as we enter the sesquicentennial of the Civil War. -- Book Jacket
Subjects:
Crowe, Eyre, 1824-1910.
Crowe, Eyre, 1824-1910 -- Travel -- United States.
Crowe, Eyre.
Geschichte 1850-1865.
Slave trade in art -- History -- 19th century.
Art -- England -- History -- 19th century.
Art -- United States -- History -- 19th century.
Antislavery movements -- England -- History -- 19th century.
Antislavery movements -- United States -- History -- 19th century.
Slave trade -- Southern States -- History -- 19th century.
Slave trade -- Virginia -- Richmond -- History -- 19th century.
Abolitionismus.
Kunst.
Sklavenhandel.
England.
USA -- Südstaaten.
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages [229]-257) and index.
Contents:
Introduction: waiting -- With Thackeray in America -- Representing the slave trade -- Mapping Richmond's slave trade in 1853 -- The red flag -- Dressed for sale -- Going South -- Exhibiting the slave trade in England -- Epilogue: remembering the slave trade.
Web Site:
Web Link Inhaltsverzeichnis
LCCN:
2011004412
ISBN:
9780226559339 (cloth)
0226559335 (cloth)
Other Number:
703870842
System Availability:
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Current Holds:
0
# Local items:
1
Control Number:
779912
Call Number:
704.9 M152
Course Reserves:
0
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