Sarah Thomas is lecturer in the Department of History of Art at Birkbeck, University of London.
“Thomas delivered an excellent volume in which she comprehensibly
shows the great impact that visual culture had on the era of
abolition and how contested images of eyewitness artists were used
for the propaganda purposes of the pro- and anti-slavery
movements.”—Annika Vosseler, Connections
“Engaging and provocative . . . Deals mainly with British
publications during the heyday of illustrated book publishing,
persuasively arguing that these artworks were deeply influenced by
the politics surrounding their production.”—Richard Price, New West
Indian Guide
“[A] lavishly illustrated and finely produced book . . . Thomas
brings together several bodies of scholarship on the visual culture
of slavery, travel, and imperial landscape.”—Esther Chadwick, Art
History
“A powerful look at the varied contexts in which artists found
themselves in the Americas as witnesses to societies that depended
on enslaved labour . . . The book’s resonance with our contemporary
reality is impossible to miss.”—Allison Young, Slavery &
Abolition
“[A] beautifully effective book. Large-size, perfect color
reproductions of paintings and prints on a remarkably readable and
viewable heavy-stock paper make it possible to survey the art of
slavery for our own determinations.”—John E. Crowley, Journal of
British Studies
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