Introduction: Parlor fantasies, parlor nightmares -- A peculiarly "ocular" institution -- Optics of respectability : spectatorship in the Black private sphere -- Look! a Negress : public women, private horrors and the white ontology of the gaze -- Racial iconography : freedom and Black citizenship in antebellum public cultures -- Racing the transatlantic parlor : blackness at home and abroad -- Epilogue: The specter of Black freedom.
Summary
"Picture Freedom provides a unique and nuanced interpretation of nineteenth-century African American life and culture. Focusing on visuality, print culture, and an examination of the parlor, Cobb has fashioned a book like none other, convincingly demonstrating how whites and blacks reimagined racial identity and belonging in the early republic."--Erica Armstrong Dunbar, author of A Fragile Freedom: African American Women and Emancipation in the Antebellum City
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