Contraband Guides: Race, Transatlantic Culture, and the Arts in the Civil War Era by Paul H. D. Kaplan
Contraband Guides: Race, Transatlantic Culture, and the Arts in the Civil War Era
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Paul H. D. Kaplan
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Contraband Guides: Race, Transatlantic Culture, and the Arts in the Civil War Era

Paul H. D. Kaplan

312 pages • missing pub info (editions)

nonfiction art history challenging informative medium-paced
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In his best-selling travel memoir, The Innocents Abroad, Mark Twain punningly refers to the black man who introduces him to Venetian Renaissance painting as a "contraband guide," a term coined to describe fugitive slaves who assisted Union armies ...

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