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Matthew Fox-Amato

Exposing Slavery: Photography, Human Bondage, and the Birth of Modern Visual Politics in America

Matthew Fox-Amato

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A Black enslaved woman holding a white child.

The Visual Documentation of Racist Violence in America

Before and during the Civil War, both enslavers and abolitionists used photography to garner support for their causes.

by Mary Niall Mitchell via Black Perspectives on November 4, 2020

Unidentified African American soldier in Union uniform with wife and two daughters.

Race in Black and White

Slavery and the Civil War were central to the development of photography as both a technology and an art.

by Alexis L. Boylan via Boston Review on June 3, 2019

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