Envisioning Emancipation: Black Americans and the End of Slavery
Rarely-before-seen photographs before, during and after emancipation
10/27/2014, 6 a.m.
BALTIMORE In honor of the
Envisioning Emancipation: Black Americans and the End of Slavery
Rarely-before-seen photographs before, during and after emancipation
10/27/2014, 6 a.m.
BALTIMORE In honor of the 150th anniversary of Maryland Emancipation, the Reginald F. Lewis Museum presents renowned photo historian Dr. Deborah Willis on Saturday November 1, 2014 at 1 p.m. Her critically acclaimed book, “Envisioning Emancipation: Black Americans and the End of Slavery,” co-written with Barbara Krauthamer, tells the visual story of the period before, during and after emancipation and its effect on African Americans. It won the NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Literary Nonfiction, 2014.
While history is often told from one perspective, “We were interested in using collective memory” to document the era, Dr. Willis says, since emancipation was "a collective experience."
The book contains rarely-before seen images from the Antebellum period through the 1930s. “Not only do these images offer rare glimpses into the lives of African Americans of the time, but the images are also testament to the qualities of pride and unending courage,” says Dr. Skipp