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

by Marcus Wood

In his tour de force Blind Memory , Marcus Wood read the visual archive of slavery in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century America and Britain with a closeness and rigor that until then had been applied only to the written texts of that epoch. Blind Memory changed the way we look at everything from a Turner seascape to a crude woodcut in a runaway slave advertisement. The Horrible Gift of Freedom brings the same degree of rigor to an analysis of the...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0820334278
• ISBN13: 9780820334271
• Release Date: February 2010
• Publisher: University of Georgia Press
• Length: 516 Pages
• Weight: 0.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.5" x 6.0" x 9.3"