Episode 8 | Picturing Freedom + Citizenship in 19th Century Black Visual Culture

Left of Black host and Duke University Professor Mark Anthony Neal is joined in studio by Jasmine Nichole Cobb, Assistant Professor of Art, Arts History and Visual Studies + African & African American Studies at Duke University.

Cobb discusses  her new book Picture Freedom Remaking Black Visuality in the Early Nineteenth Century (New York University Press) where she “explores the earliest illustrations of free Blacks and reveals the complicated route through visual culture toward a vision of African American citizenship. Picture Freedom reveals how these depictions contributed to public understandings of nationhood, among both domestic eyes and the larger Atlantic world.’