Visualizing equality : African American rights and visual culture in the nineteenth century / Aston Gonzalez.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

"Visualizing equality ... analyz[es] how previously unexamined or understudied African American artists shaped conceptions of race during the nineteenth century. Marshaling material from 26 private and public archives in the United States and England, Gonzalez charts the changing roles of African American visual artists as they used their work to expand black rights in the United States. Understudied or forgotten artists such as Robert Douglass Jr., Patrick Henry Reason, James P. Ball, and Augustus Washington produced images to persuade viewers of the necessity for black social equality, political enfranchisement, and freedom from slavery, and Gonzalez argues that these cultural producers helped to make the world they envisioned through their art"-- Provided by publisher

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Cover -- Half Title -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- INTRODUCTION: Pictured Appeals, Social Reformers -- 1. Graphic Exchanges: Robert Douglass Jr.'s Activism in Philadelphia -- 2. Picturing Black Fugitivity and Respectability in New York City -- 3. Compositions of No Ordinary Merit and the Struggle for Black Rights -- 4. Spectacular Activism: Black Abolitionists and Their Moving Panoramas -- 5. The Optics of Liberian Emigration -- 6. Freedom and Citizenship: Conflicting Views of Wartime -- 7. Religion, Rights, and the Promises of Reconstruction -- EPILOGUE

Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z

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