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21 Ιουλ 2024 · Portraits of children captioned “Emancipated Slaves—White and Colored” were part of a publicity campaign to raise funds for schools for emancipated slaves.
The campaigners used light-skinned children because of the prejudice against darker-skinned ones, as white audiences associated innocence and purity with whiteness. Through an analysis of these photos, the themes of gender, childhood, and race become prominent.
Photographs of emancipated children were sold to raise money for the education of freed slaves in New Orleans. The children featured in this photograph drew attention to the fact that slavery was not solely a matter of color.
These portraits of emancipated slave children from New Orleans were created as part of a campaign to raise money for their education and, more broadly, to generate sympathy for the plight...
In several photographs, African American subjects hold objects symbolic of their newfound freedoms and accomplishments in the wake of emancipation. In a small tintype (an image on a thin sheet of iron), a young boy stands with a school bag over his shoulder.
20 Δεκ 2012 · “Envisioning Emancipation” argues that photography was not incidental but central to the war against slavery, racism and segregation in the antebellum period of the 1850s through the New Deal...
Photographs of emancipated children by photographer Charles Paxson were sold to raise money for the education of freed slaves in New Orleans. The children featured in these photographs drew attention to the fact that slavery was not simply a matter of color but of birth.
