Week 1: March 1
Introductions, Overview, and Visualizing the Antebellum Plantation
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Reading #1 John Michael Vlach, “Perpetuating the Past: Landscape Paintings Then and Now,” in Landscape of Slavery: The Plantation in American Art, Angela D. Mack and Stephen G. Hoffius, eds. (Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 2007), 16-29.
Questions to consider while reading:
How and why did plantation paintings change from before to after the war?
According to Vlach, in what ways are plantation paintings a fiction?
Vlach, Perpetuating the Past .pdfReading #2: David W. Blight, Race and Reunion, prologue, p. 1-5
Question to consider while reading: Blight concludes in the prologue that race and reunion were dependent upon each other in the collective memory of the Civil War? How so?
Blight, Race and Reunion prologue.pdfImages for this week:
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