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Envisioning Emancipation: Black Americans and the End of Slavery

Willis, Deborah

Synopsis:

Photographic historian Deborah Willis and historian of slavery Barbara Krauthamer worked on this book that has over 140 photographs from the antebellum days of the 1850s through the New Deal era of the 1930s. Among the photographs, some never before published, are Juneteenth celebrations and slave reunions.

 

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