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

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

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

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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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