Hidden in Plain Sight: Concealing Enslavement in American Visual Culture

by Rachel Stephens

In the decades leading up to the Civil War, abolitionists crafted a variety of visual messages about the plight of enslaved people, portraying the violence, familial separation, and dehumanization that they faced. In response, proslavery southerners attempted to counter these messages either through idealization or outright erasure of enslaved life.

In Hidden in Plain Sight: Concealing Enslavement in American Visual Culture, Rachel...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1682262332
• ISBN13: 9781682262337
• Release Date: August 2023
• Publisher: University of Arkansas Press
• Length: 340 Pages
• Weight: 5.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 9.7" x 12.1"