Books

In this interdisciplinary transatlantic study, Jennifer investigates diverse artifacts—from portraits and city views to gravestones, dressing furniture, and prosthetic devices—to explore how elite white consumers assembled objects to form a new civil society on the… Read More »The Power of Objects in Eighteenth-Century British America

This timely and eloquent book tells a new history of American art: how enslaved people of African origin and descent mobilized portraiture for acts of defiance. Moving from the wharves of colonial Rhode Island to… Read More »Portraits of Resistance: Activating Art During Slavery