To Make Their Own Way in the World: The Enduring Legacy of the Zealy Daguerreotypes

Sales Points
- Photographs at the center of inquiry into the history of slavery in the US- Essential reading for students of photography, representation, and US history- Includes singularly important contributions by scholars of African American history and photography

Additional Comp Titles
- Envisioning Emancipation: Black Americans and the End of Slavery, by Deborah Willis. 9781439909850, $59.50 USD (Temple University Press, 2012)- Deliäs Tears: Race, Science, and Photography in Nineteenth-Century America. 9780300115482, $69.00 USD (Yale University Press, 2010)- Hidden Witness: African American Images from the Dawn of Photography to the Civil War. 9780312245467 (St. Martins Press, 2000)