February 4: Envisioning Emancipation by Deborah Willis and Barbara Krauthamer

By examining images of African American from the 1850s, when many were slaves, to the 1930s, Deborah Willis, a leading scholar of African American photography at New York University, and University of Massachusetts, Amherst, assistant history professor Barbara Krauthamer capture several generations of change.

Envisioning Emancipation: Black Americans and the End of Slavery shows us what freedom looked like for black Americans in the Civil War era.

In this pioneering book, Willis and Krauthamer have amassed 150 photographs - some never before published - from the antebellum days of the 1850s through the New Deal era of the 1930s.

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