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Slaves waiting for sale : abolitionist art and the American slave trade / Maurie D. McInnis.
Fine Arts Library N8243.S576 M35 2013
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- McInnis, Maurie Dee, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Crowe, Eyre, 1824-1910.
- Slave trade in art--History--19th century.
- Slave trade in art.
- Art--England--History--19th century.
- Art.
- Art, Modern--19th century--History.
- Art, Modern.
- History.
- Crowe, Eyre.
- Crowe, Eyre, 1824-1910--Travel--United States.
- Antislavery movements--England--History--19th century.
- Antislavery movements.
- Antislavery movements--United States--History--19th century.
- Slave trade.
- Travel.
- United States.
- Slave trade--Southern States--History--19th century.
- Slave trade--Virginia--Richmond--History--19th century.
- England.
- Southern States.
- Virginia--Richmond.
- Genre:
- History.
- Physical Description:
- viii, 268 pages, 12 color plates : illustrations, maps ; 26 cm
- Edition:
- Paperback edition.
- Place of Publication:
- Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2013.
- 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.
- 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.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 229-257) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780226055060
- 022605506X
- 9780226559339
- 0226559335
- OCLC:
- 846679601
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