![]() Her pioneering book Black Slaves, Indian Masters: Slavery, Emancipation, and Citizenship in the Native American South (2013) centers previously unacknowledged women’s and racial histories of enslavement among the Indigenous Choctaw and Chickasaw nations. ![]() ![]() Barbara Krauthamer is Dean of the College of Humanities and Fine Arts and Professor of History at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. ![]() Willis and Krauthamer’s talk continues a dialogue begun in their groundbreaking book, Envisioning Emancipation: Black Americans and the End of Slavery (2013 ).ĭr. Photography from the Civil War period also preserves the pride and bravery of the Black men and women who served in the Union army and acted as conductors on the Underground Railroad. From domestic workers to figures such as Sojourner Truth and Frederick Douglass, photographic representations of Black Americans at this critical juncture convey a sense of dignity and were sold as vital sources of fundraising for anti-enslavement activism. In this virtual conversation, colleagues and co-authors Deborah Willis and Barbara Krauthamer trace deep connections between the proliferation of photography and the emancipation of Black Americans in the United States. ![]()
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