Visualizing Equality: African American Rights and Visual Culture in the Nineteenth Century

The fight for racial equality in the nineteenth century played out not only in marches and political conventions but also in the print and visual culture created and disseminated throughout the United States by African Americans. Advances in visual technologies - daguerreotypes, lithographs, cartes de visite, and steam printing presses - enabled people to see and participate in social reform movements in new ways. African American activists seized these opportunities and produced images tha...