Elite colored women: the material culture of photography & Victorian era womanhood in reconstruction era Memphis.
This article focuses on a small community of elite 'colored' women in Memphis. The origins of this community began with a limited number of free people that established roots in the city during the1830s. Using photography as the main resource, this article examines the role of controlled image-makin...
| Published in: | Slavery & Abolition Vol. 41; no. 1; pp. 29 - 64 |
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