The Illustrated Slave: Empathy, Graphic Narrative, and the Visual Culture of the Transatlantic Abolition Movement, 1800-1852

by Martha J. Cutter

Book Overview

From the 1787 Wedgwood antislavery medallion featuring the image of an enchained and pleading black body to Quentin Tarantino's Django Unchained (2012) and Steve McQueen's Twelve Years a Slave (2013), slavery as a system of torture and bondage has fascinated the optical imagination of the transatlantic world. Scholars have examined various aspects of the visual culture that was slavery, including its painting, sculpture, pamphlet...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0820358754
• ISBN13: 9780820358758
• Release Date: November 2020
• Publisher: University of Georgia Press
• Length: 328 Pages
• Weight: 0.92 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.1" x 9.2"