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The Freedom Seekers Who 'Managed to Shape Their Own Destinies'


The Black Freedom Seekers Who ‘Managed to Shape Their Own Destinies’
The Many and Varied Attempts by African Americans to Escape Bondage in the Lower Mississippi Valley Tell a Larger Narrative
Many escapees fought back when slave-catchers pursued them. Courtesy of the Library of Congress.
by S. Charles Bolton |
January 27, 2021
The Lower Mississippi Valley begins at Cairo, Illinois, where the Ohio River flows into the Mississippi, and extends south to the Head of Passes 100 miles below New Orleans, where the Mississippi empties into the Gulf of Mexico. After the Louisiana Purchase in 1803, white Americans flocked into the valley, the most ambitious settling in the delta region between Vicksburg and Memphis. There, climate and soil combined to create one of the best places in the world to grow cotton. ....

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How the camera confronted slavery — and still does


How the camera confronted slavery — and still does
By Mark Feeney Globe Staff,Updated December 30, 2020, 2:02 p.m.
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Carrie Mae Weems, While Sitting Upon the Ruins of Your Remains, I Pondered the Course of History (2016-17), from To Make Their Own Way in the World: The Enduring Legacy of the Zealy Daguerreotypes (Aperture/Peabody Museum Press, 2020).Courtesy the artist and Jack Shainman Gallery, New York
The course of history didn’t change in 1839, with the invention of photography. What did change was our collective relationship to history. Camera-captured images altered the public’s understanding of events — or, at the very least, made it harder to ignore them. The novelist Wright Morris, who was also a very good photographer, once asked a deeply provocative question: If there had been someone with a camera when Christ arrived at Golgotha, how would that have changed our understanding of events on that particular hill on th ....

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