Visualizing Equality: African American Rights and Visual Culture in the Nineteenth Century

With 19th-century technological advancements in visuals such as daguerreotypes, lithographs and steam printing presses came new ways for African Americans to frame their civil rights activism. Artists such as Robert Douglass Jr. and Augustus Washington created powerful images with the intent of winning general support for racial equality and the abolition of slavery. Gonzalez focuses on this specific time period and the artists’ substantial impact on Black culture and politics.

Finalist, 2021 Association for the Study of African American Life and History Book Prize

Finalist, 2020 First Book Award, The Library Company of Philadelphia