The Horrible Gift of Freedom - Atlantic Slavery and the Representation of Emancipation - Paperback - 2010

Why did imagery showing the very instant of the birth of black slave freedom invariably personify Liberty as a white woman? Where did the image of the enchained kneeling slave, ubiquitous in abolitionist visual culture on both sides of the Atlantic, come from? This book attempts to answer these questions.
Year of publication: 2010
Pagination: 516 pages, 24 colour 147 bw photos
Format: Paperback
Serie: Race in the Atlantic World 17001900