D Mcinnis: 2 books
Slaves Waiting for Sale
Abolitionist Art and the American Slave Trade
Language: English
Release Date: December 25, 2011
In 1853, Eyre Crowe, a young British artist, visited a slave auction in Richmond, Virginia. Harrowed by what he witnessed, he captured the scene in sketches that he would later develop into a series of illustrations and paintings, including the culminating painting, Slaves Waiting for Sale, Richmond,...
by D. McInnis
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2012
Drawing on a wide range of drama from across the seventeenth century, including works by Marlowe, Heywood, Jonson, Brome, Davenant, Dryden and Behn, this book situates voyage drama in its historical and intellectual context between the individual act of reading in early modern England and the communal act of modern sightseeing.