Picture Freedom: Remaking Black Visuality in the Early Nineteenth Century

Picture Freedom Provides A Unique And Nuanced Interpretation Of Nineteenth-century African American Life And Culture. Focusing On Visuality, Print Culture, And An Examination Of The Parlor, Cobb Has Fashioned A Book Like None Other, Convincingly Demonstrating How Whites And Blacks Reimagined Racial Identity And Belonging In The Early Republic.--erica Armstrong Dunbar, Author Of A Fragile Freedom: African American Women And Emancipation In The Antebellum City.