Week 4, October 18:
Post-War Commemorations and Photographing the Enslaved and Formerly Enslaved
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Reading 1: David Blight, chapter 3 "Decoration Days," in Race and Reunion.
Question: How did Memorial Day Celebrations reflect the shifting tone in Civil War memory?
Reading 2: Deborah Willis and Barbara Krauthamer, Chapter 2, "A Collective Portrait of the Civil War," in Envisioning Emancipation: Black Americans and the End of Slavery (2013).
This is long, but (mostly) pictures. I won't add a pdf of images this week b/c they are fairly well visible in the pdf.
Question: How was freedom depicted in photographs in the early days of emancipation? What is documented and what is omitted?
Willis and Krauthamer, Envisioning Emancipation.pdfGoogle Sites
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