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Hidden Witness: African American Images from the Dawn of Photography to the Civil War
Jackie Napolean Wilson
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| #308529 in Books | 2000-01 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 | 9.25 x8.50 x.75l, | File type: PDF | 191 pages||3 of 3 people found the following review helpful.| Precious history.|By History Teacher|This book has photographs to treasure. To see black people at this period of history recorded in photographs is a precious thing. However, I must agree with the consensus that the text is worthless, which is why I didn't give the book five stars. I was not interested in the author's guesses about these people and many times he was actual|.com |The image is striking: A woman gazes serenely at the camera, baby cradled in her arms in classic Madonna-and-child pose. More striking is the fact that the sitters are black, and the photograph dates from 1860. Few photographs from the mid-19th century fe
As slaves, African Americans were virtually invisible to history. Even after the Civil War there were not many African American photographers and very few people had the time, money or freedom to sit for a portrait. Consequently only a few hundred such pictures have survived from that time to bear witness to African Americans and the lives they led. Jackie Wilson has assembled a comprehensive collection of such images into one volume. The daguerreotypes and tintypes show...
You can specify the type of files you want, for your device.Hidden Witness: African American Images from the Dawn of Photography to the Civil War | Jackie Napolean Wilson. A good, fresh read, highly recommended.
