Negotiating Freedom : Writing the Emancipated Narrative -- Sketches of Slave Life, First Edition -- Sketches of Slave Life, Second Edition -- From Slave Cabin t

In 1853, Eyre Crowe, a young British artist, visited a slave auction in Richmond, Virginia. Harrowed by what he witnessed, he captured the scene in sketches tha

Enslaved African Americans longed for freedom, and that longing took many forms—including music. Drawing on biblical imagery, slave songs both expressed the s