Fictions of Emancipation: Carpeaux's Why Born Enslaved! Reconsidered by Caitlin Meehye Beach, Iris Moon, Wendy S. Walters, Elyse Nelson, Adrienne L. Childs, James Smalls, Sarah E. Lawrence, Rachel Hunter Himes

Fictions of Emancipation: Carpeaux's Why Born Enslaved! Reconsidered

Caitlin Meehye Beach, Iris Moon, Wendy S. Walters, Elyse Nelson, Adrienne L. Childs, James Smalls, Sarah E. Lawrence, Rachel Hunter Himes

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A critical reexamination of Jean-Baptiste Carpeaux's bust Why Born Enslaved!, this book unpacks the sculpture's engagement with—and defiance of—an antislavery discourse.In this clear-eyed look at the Black figure in nineteenth-century sculpture, n...

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