Read: (a) Ginger Hill, “ ‘Rightly Viewed’: Theorizations of Self in Frederick Douglass’s Lectures on Pictures” (Pictures and Progress: Early Photography and the Making of African American Identity, ed. Maurice O. Wallace and Shawn Michelle Smith)
(b) “Emancipation Proclamation” (Proclamation 95), January 1, 1863; 13th Amendment to the Constitution of the United States
For additional information about the “Emancipation Proclamation,” the Wikipedia entry is fairly detailed and contains scholarly references: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emancipation_Proclamation
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CORE ARCHIVE: Works by contemporary artists Rashid Johnson and Isaac Julien
Rashid Johnson, Self-Portrait with my hair parted like Frederick Douglass (2003) (Photograph)
Rashid Johnson, The New Negro Escapist Social and Athletic Club (2008) (Photograph)
Rashid Johnson, Self-Portrait as the Professor of Astronomy… (2008) (Photograph)
Rashid Johnson, Message to Our Folks (2013) (Exhibition at the High Museum)
Isaac Julien, Lessons of the Hour (2019) (Immersive 10-screen video installation focused on the life of Frederick Douglass)
Description of the work on the artist’s website
Research: photography & the Civil War; photography & abolition