Contraband Guides : : Race, Transatlantic Culture, and the Arts in the Civil War Era /

Contraband Guides : : Race, Transatlantic Culture, and the Arts in the Civil War Era / / Paul H. D. Kaplan.

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In his best-selling travel memoir, The Innocents Abroad, Mark Twain punningly refers to the black man who introduces him to Venetian Renaissance painting as a “contraband guide,” a term coined to describe fugitive slaves who assisted Union armies during the Civil War. By means of this and similar ca...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Penn State University Press Complete eBook-Package 2020
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Kaplan, Paul H. D.,
Place / Publishing House:University Park, PA : : Penn State University Press, , [2020]
©2020
Year of Publication:2020
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (312 p.) :; 48 color/76 b&w illustrations
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • List of illustrations
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction
  • 1 Representations of People of Color in Nineteenth-Century American Accounts of Italian Travel
  • 2 “A Mulatto Sculptor from New Orleans”
  • 3 “The Black Man To-day Means Liberty”
  • 4 “Something American”
  • 5 Old Masters
  • 6 Contraband Guide
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Index

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