The Horrible Gift of Freedom: Atlantic Slavery and the Representation of Emancipation Book

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The Horrible Gift of Freedom: Atlantic Slavery and the Representation of Emancipation, Marcus Wood takes a troubled and troubling look at the iconography inspired by the abolition of slavery across the Atlantic diaspora. Why, he asks, did imagery showing the very instant of the birth of black slave freedom invariably personify Liberty as a, The Horrible Gift of Freedom: Atlantic Slavery and the Representation of Emancipation

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The Horrible Gift of Freedom: Atlantic Slavery and the Representation of Emancipation
Written by author Marcus Wood
Published by University of Georgia Press, February 2010
"Marcus Wood takes a troubled and troubling look at the iconography inspired by the abolition of slavery across the Atlantic diaspora. Why, he asks, did imagery showing the very instant of the birth of black slave freedom invariably personify Liberty as a
In his tour-de-force Blind Memory, Marcus Wood read the visual archive of slavery in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century America and Britain with a closeness and rigor that until then had been applied only to the written texts of that epoch. Now, Wood take

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1 "The Horrible Gift of Freedom": An Odd Title? 1

2 The Arts and Craft of Freedom: Picturing Liberty and the Free Slave 35

3 Pragmatic Popular Propagations of the Emancipation Moment 90

4 No-go Areas and the Emancipation Moment: Running-Dancing-Revolting Slaves 126

5 Stamping Out the Memory of Slavery: The 2007 Commemoratives and Philatelic Approaches to Bondage and Freedom 182

6 Supine in Perpetuity: The Description of the Brookes in 2007 263

7 The Horrible Gift of Freedom and the 1807/2007 Bicentennial 296

Conclusion 354

Notes 369

Bibliography 407

Index 423

Title: The Horrible Gift of Freedom: Atlantic Slavery and the Representation of Emancipation

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Publication Date: February 2010

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Weight: 0.200 kg (0.44 lbs)

Width: 6.300 cm (2.48 inches)

Heigh : 9.300 cm (3.66 inches)

Depth: 1.400 cm (0.55 inches)

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