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Picturing Frederick Douglass: An Illustrated Biography of the Nineteenth Century's Most Photographed American (2015)
Book
Stauffer, J., Trodd, Z., & Bernier, C. (2015). Picturing Frederick Douglass: An Illustrated Biography of the Nineteenth Century's Most Photographed American. Liveright Publishing Corporation

Commemorating the bicentennial of Frederick Douglass’s birthday and featuring images discovered since its original publication in 2015, this “tour de force” (Library Journal, starred review) reintroduced Frederick Douglass to a twenty-first-century a... Read More about Picturing Frederick Douglass: An Illustrated Biography of the Nineteenth Century's Most Photographed American.

John Brown's spirit: the abolitionist aesthetic of emancipatory martyrdom in early antilynching protest literature (2015)
Journal Article
Trodd, Z. (2015). John Brown's spirit: the abolitionist aesthetic of emancipatory martyrdom in early antilynching protest literature. Journal of American Studies, 49(2), https://doi.org/10.1017/S0021875815000055

Before his execution in 1859, the radical abolitionist John Brown wrote a series of prison letters that – along with his death itself – helped to cement the abolitionist aesthetic of emancipatory martyrdom. This article charts the adaptation of that... Read More about John Brown's spirit: the abolitionist aesthetic of emancipatory martyrdom in early antilynching protest literature.