Picture Freedom Evelyn Hu-DeHart Combing through a visually stunning

Combing through a visually stunning and rare archive of children’s literature

Florence Allen

Especially when

and the life force within words—and major controversies—relating to race

Against the ideal of ceaseless gender and sexual fluidity and attachments to rigidly defined identities

Picture Freedom Evelyn Hu-DeHart Combing through a visually stunningIn the decades leading up to the end of U. S. slavery, many free Blacks sat for daguerreotypes decorated in fine garments to document their self possession. People pictured in these early photographs used portraiture to seize control over representation of the free Black body and reimagine Black visuality divorced from the cultural logics of slavery. In Picture Freedom, Jasmine Nichole Cobb analyzes the ways in which the circulation of various images