The Black Civil War Soldier Book Talk (Virtual Event)

A book talk with Dr. Deborah Willis, Sarah Lewis, and Matthew Fox-Amato 

The Black Civil War Soilder is a stunning collection of stoic portraits and intimate ephemera from the lives of Black Civil War soldiers.

Though both the Union and Confederate armies excluded African American men from their initial calls to arms, many of the men who eventually served were black. Simultaneously, photography culture blossomed—marking the Civil War as the first conflict to be extensively documented through photographs. In The Black Civil War Soldier, Deb Willis explores the crucial role of photography in (re)telling and shaping African American narratives of the Civil War, pulling from a dynamic visual archive that has largely gone unacknowledged.

Presented by:
Center for Black Visual Culture (CBVC)/Institute of African American Affairs (IAAA)
Co-sponsored by 370J Project and Africana Studies/Dept. of SCA