
"Chaotic Freedom" in Civil War Louisiana
The Origins of an Iconic Image
Published by: University of Massachusetts Press
128 Pages, 4.00 x 7.00 x 0.50 in, 9 b&w illus.
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by Bruce Laurie
Published by: University of Massachusetts Press
128 Pages, 4.00 x 7.00 x 0.50 in, 9 b&w illus.
Other Retailers:
BRUCE LAURIE is professor emeritus of history at the University of Massachusetts Amherst and author of Rebels in Paradise: Sketches of Northampton Abolitionists.
"As painful and uncomfortable as Peter's image was to view, it allowed a mass audience to experience . . . the evils of slavery in a way that even the most potent words of abolitionists William Lloyd Garrison or Harriet Beecher Stowe ever could."—Christopher Klein, Boston Globe
"'Chaotic Freedom' in Civil War Louisiana makes an important contribution to the history of Civil War photography by providing new insight into the production of the image commonly known as The Scourged Back . . . [C]ompelling."—Civil War History
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