Slaves Waiting for Sale

Autorentext

Maurie D. McInnis is professor in the McIntire Department of Art and associate dean for the College and the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences at the University of Virginia. She is the author of The Politics of Taste in Antebellum Charleston.

Klappentext

In 1853, Eyre Crowe, a young British artist, visited a slave auction in Richmond, Virginia. This book uses Crowe's paintings to explore the texture of the slave trade in Richmond, Charleston, and New Orleans; the evolving iconography of abolitionist art; and the role of visual culture in the transatlantic world of abolitionism.