Josiah Henson and Visual Culture in the Atlantic World

Josiah Henson and Visual Culture in the Atlantic World

Thomas Lang (History, Huron)

This paper traces the use of photography in African American visual culture, and analyses photographs and illustrations of Josiah Henson to demonstrate how visual culture was used to claim an identity uncircumscribed by race and racialized sight lines.

Read the paper at the link below.

Josiah Henson and Visual Culture

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