Matthew Fox-Amato teaches history at the University of Idaho. Oxford University Press has just published his book, called “Exposing Slavery: Photography, Human Bondage, and the Birth of Modern Visual Politics in America.” Idaho Matters takes a closer look.
University of Idaho assistant professor looks at slavery through pictures
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Matthew Fox-Amato, Exposing Slavery: Photography, Human Bondage, and the Birth of Modern Visual Politics in America
(Oxford University Press, 2019). / Cover design by Caroline McDonnell
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Matthew Fox-Amato, Exposing Slavery: Photography, Human Bondage, and the Birth of Modern Visual Politics in America
(Oxford University Press, 2019). / Cover design by Caroline McDonnell
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“Mammy Kitty,” ambrotype, c. 1860. Artist Unknown. ";s:
Ellis Family Daguerreotypes, Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library, University of Virginia
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“Mammy Kitty,” ambrotype, c. 1860. Artist Unknown. ";s:
Ellis Family Daguerreotypes, Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library, University of Virginia
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Ezra Greenleaf Weld, Fugitive Slave Law Convention, Cazenovia, New York, daguerreotype, August 22, 1850.
Digital image courtesy of the Getty’s Open Content Program.
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Ezra Greenleaf Weld, Fugitive Slave Law Convention, Cazenovia, New York, daguerreotype, August 22, 1850.
Digital image courtesy of the Getty’s Open Content Program.
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James Presley Ball, Jesse Berch, quartermaster sergeant, 25, Wisconsin Regiment of Racine, Wis. [and] Frank M. Rockwell, postmaster 22 Wisconsin of Geneva, Wis., carte de visite, 1862.
Civil War Collection, Gladstone Collection of African American Photographs, Prints and Photographs Division, Library of Congress, LC-DIG-ppmsca-10940.
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James Presley Ball, Jesse Berch, quartermaster sergeant, 25, Wisconsin Regiment of Racine, Wis. [and] Frank M. Rockwell, postmaster 22 Wisconsin of Geneva, Wis., carte de visite, 1862.
Civil War Collection, Gladstone Collection of African American Photographs, Prints and Photographs Division, Library of Congress, LC-DIG-ppmsca-10940.
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George Barnard, Group portrait of soldiers in front of a tent, possibly at Camp Cameron, Washington, D.C., carte de visite, 1861-1865.
Civil War Collection, Gladstone Collection of African American Photographs, Prints and Photographs Division, Library of Congress, LC-DIG-ppmsca-11200.
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George Barnard, Group portrait of soldiers in front of a tent, possibly at Camp Cameron, Washington, D.C., carte de visite, 1861-1865.
Civil War Collection, Gladstone Collection of African American Photographs, Prints and Photographs Division, Library of Congress, LC-DIG-ppmsca-11200.
