Slaves Waiting for Sale
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Slaves Waiting for Sale

Abolitionist Art and the American Slave Trade

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eBook - ePub

Slaves Waiting for Sale

Abolitionist Art and the American Slave Trade

About this book

In 1853, Eyre Crowe, a young British artist, visited a slave auction in Richmond, Virginia. Harrowed by what he witnessed, he captured the scene in sketches that he would later develop into a series of illustrations and paintings, including the culminating painting, Slaves Waiting for Sale, Richmond, Virginia.

This innovative book uses Crowe's paintings to explore the texture of the slave trade in Richmond, Charleston, and New Orleans, the evolving iconography of abolitionist art, and the role of visual culture in the transatlantic world of abolitionism. Tracing Crowe's trajectory from Richmond across the American South and back to London—where his paintings were exhibited just a few weeks after the start of the Civil War—Maurie D. McInnis illuminates not only how his abolitionist art was inspired and made, but also how it influenced the international public's grasp of slavery in America. With almost 140 illustrations, Slaves Waiting for Sale brings a fresh perspective to the American slave trade and abolitionism as we enter the sesquicentennial of the Civil War.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Copyright
  3. Title Page
  4. Contents
  5. Color Plates
  6. Acknowledgments
  7. Introduction: Waiting
  8. 1 With Thackeray in America
  9. 2 Representing the Slave Trade
  10. 3 Mapping Richmond’s Slave Trade in 1853
  11. 4 The Red Flag
  12. 5 Dressed for Sale
  13. 6 Going South
  14. 7 Exhibiting the Slave Trade in England
  15. Epilogue Remembering the Slave Trade
  16. Notes
  17. Index