Industrial Chart of Liberty 19th Century Frame Style:Bourbon Frame here corralled into the elliptical

here corralled into the elliptical geometry of a Victorian orrery diagram

Evolution of the African Race 19 belongs to a didactic print tradition that sought to chart Black American life in panels and plates — a chromolithograph plate that bears the weight of how the nineteenth century insisted on narrating a people whose story was already being told by themselves

and the Virginian who first imagined the thing — three faces marshaled into a single lithograph of remembrance

the Atlanta campaign hardening into something pitiless

Industrial Chart of Liberty 19th Century Frame Style:Bourbon Frame here corralled into the ellipticalIndustrial Chart of Liberty 19th Century renders the Republic as a balance sheet of smokestacks and rolling mills, liberty recast in the iconography of foundries and freight a chromolithograph that mistakes prosperity for proof, and draws the argument anyway in confident, ornamented ink. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive the Library of Congress, the National Archives, regional historical