Howard Weeden Old Voices 1st Ed 1904 Poetry Portraits African American Freedmen

Description: A significant work from the post-civil war south. Original 1904, 1st edition. See photos for condition issues - there is spine/binding damage as depicted From wikipedia: In 1893 Weeden attended the World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago, where she was dismayed by other artists whose works featuring freedmen and freedwomen showed them in the caricature style of minstrel shows. She returned to Huntsville determined to express the full humanity and dignity of freedmen. Her images included pictures of many freed African Americans who worked as servants for her and friends' families.[3] While she painted, she listened to their accounts of their lives and of folktales, and later adapted some of these as poems, which she wrote in the black dialect

Price: 130 USD

Location: Wilmington, North Carolina

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Binding: Hardcover

Language: English

Illustrator: Cora Parker

Special Attributes: 1st Edition, Illustrated

Author: Howard Weeden

Publisher: Doubleday, Page & Company

Year Printed: 1904

Original/Facsimile: Original