AP African American Studies / Unit 2: Freedom, Enslavement, and Resistance
2.21 Legacies of Resistance in African American Art and Photography
Notes
Art and photography documented and resisted slavery: Frederick Douglass used photographs to present Black dignity; images like "Whipped Peter" exposed slavery's brutality.
Practice
Frederick Douglass used photography to:
Most photographed American of his century.
The photo of "Whipped Peter" (Gordon) showed:
Abolitionist evidence.
Art by African Americans often served to:
Resistance.
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