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Pictures and Progress explores how, during the nineteenth century and the early twentieth, prominent African American intellectuals and activists understood ph...
Oct 9, 2023 · Genetic studies suggest that the first people to arrive in the Americas descend from an ancestral group of Ancient North Siberians and East Asians that mingled around 20,000 to 23,000 years...
Oct 24, 2019 · For the first time, a medium could capture people and places in real time – images that not only documented the world, but, according to a new exhibition at the National Gallery of Art in ...
The image is likely set on a rural plantation owned by Samuel T. Gentry in Greene County, Georgia, according to the auction listing. Gentry enslaved between 15 and 18 people in Georgia...
Abolitionist speaker and writer Frederick Douglass believed that images of African Americans like himself could help dissolve stereotypes and challenge racism. Leaning into the new technology, Douglass became one of the most photographed Americans in the 19th century.
Feb 21, 2024 · Considering the American social landscape in the 1800s, the confidence he showed in early photographs helped build such a strong reputation that some people questioned if he was ever a fugitive slave (Picturing Frederick Douglass with John Stauffer 2017).
Portraits of Frederick Douglass, the most photographed American of the nineteenth century, illuminate his life and career as an abolitionist. By tracing the evolution of his self-presentation, this article highlights the power of photography for countering racist stereotypes of Black Americans during the nineteenth century.
