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The Horrible Gift of Freedom: Atlantic Slavery and the Representation of Emancipation

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The Horrible Gift of Freedom: Atlantic Slavery and the Representation of Emancipation - Wood, Marcus
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By taking a new look at the role of the visual arts in promoting the "great emancipation swindle," Wood brings into the open the manner in which the slave power and its inheritors have single-mindedly focused on celebratory cultural myths that function to diminish both white culpability and black outrage.

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The Horrible Gift of Freedom: Atlantic Slavery and the Representation of Emancipation 2010, University of Georgia Press, Athens

ISBN-13: 9780820334271

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The Horrible Gift of Freedom: Atlantic Slavery and the Representation of Emancipation 2010, University of Georgia Press, Athens

ISBN-13: 9780820334264

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