This book is about the visual images that are related to the times during slavery. It give many, many pictures and examples of how they affected the publics views on slavery and on abolition. It looks at pictures, diaries, woodcuttings, diagrams, and even sculptures. I will try and use this to find certain images that made the most impact, and see why and how they were so special.
Sandage, Scott A. A Marble House Divided: The Lincoln Memorial, the Civil Rights Movement, and the Politics of Memory, 1939-1963. The Journal of American History, Vol. 80, No. 1 June 1993. (135-167).
The article discusses how memory is affected mostly by images. This is important in gaining support from the public, and making them remember what is important. Visual images can relate to everyone, and I want to try and find out to what extent and how much people rely on these images to support their views on civil rights movements.
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Wood, Marcus. Blind Memory: Visual Representations of Slavery in England and America 1780-1865. New York: Routledge Inc, 2000. 21-24.
21-22 Has the slave ship diagram, and Who is Gates? I can use this to show
kneeling slave coin. "was reproduced as the that propaganda was just as import-
heading to a great number of anti-slavery ant if not more, if it is visual.
publications appearing as stationary...what this image
shares with abolition propaganda... is its central focus
is a rhetoric which conforms, to a frightening extent,
to Gates's description of erasure."
24 "Meynell's drawing has an ungainly power perhaps EYEWITNESS account as a picture.
all the more empathetic in view of the fact that no There is no white liberating presence
visual eyewitness account of an English slave cargo shown in the picture. It is shown
has survived from the period before 1807." that sometimes the slaves must take care all by themselves.
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