Partial Portraits: African Americans in Harper's New Monthly Magazine

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    • Subject Terms:
      Douglass, Frederick; Strother, David Hunter
    • Subject Terms:
      Cuba; New York; United States; Louisiana; Brazil; Africa; United Kingdom
    • Abstract:
      This essay considers seemingly benign illustrations from nineteenth-century sources, which scholars might be inclined to reproduce for evidentiary use. It critiques representations of African Americans in Harper's New Monthly Magazine. Through an analysis of portrayals of slavery, it discusses image composition and production to argue that as a visual archive of the nineteenth century, the periodical is an incomplete and misrepresentative evidence source on African Americans.