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Zublia Aggolia

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Work and the Poetry of Sterling Brown: Reclaiming Forced Labor

Juxtaposing an 1850 daguerreotype portrait of a slave, a painting by Jean-François Millet, a photograph by Lewis Hine, and a poem by Sterling Brown, this essay seeks to understand how, and under what conditions, even forced labor may be reclaimed and…

woman holding book

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Wilson Chinn, a branded slave from Louisiana

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Wilson Chinn

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Wilson Chinn

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White Suffering and the Branded Hand

This essay analyzes the social and racial significance of an unusual mid-nineteenth-century daguerreotype of a white abolitionist’s branded hand.

White and Black Slaves

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Union soldier

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Union infantryman

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