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From slave ship to Harvard : Yarrow Mamout and the history of an African American family / by Johnston, James H., 1944-

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Committed to memory : the art of the slave ship icon / by Finley, Cheryl

Table of Contents: “…Rites/reinventions (1990s-present) -- Pattern : behind the face of an iron -- Spirits : from Changó to iconoclasm -- Roots tourism and the slave ship icon -- Museums, monuments, and memorials -- Afterword : The shape of things: doesn't always appear as it seems.…”
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J.M.W. Turner and the subject of history by Costello, Leo

Table of Contents: “…Introduction -- "A great and dreadful sea-fight" : the Battle of Trafalgar (1806-8) and the end of contemporary history painting -- "The conception of a swamp'd world" : destruction and creation in painting/history -- "This cross-fire of colours" : Turner and the varnishing days -- "In Venice now" : history, nature, and the body of the subject -- The slave ship : painting/abolition/history -- Conclusion.…”

Scandals, vandals, and Da Vincis : a gallery of remarkable art tales by Rachlin, Harvey

Table of Contents: “…Graham / Thomas Gainsborough -- Watson and the Shark / John Singleton Copley -- The Skater / Gilbert Stuart -- George Washington (Athenaeum Head) / Gilbert Stuart -- Charles IV and His Family / Francisco José de Goya y Lucientes -- Lady Maitland / Sir Henry Raeburn -- Slave Ship (Slavers Throwing Overboard the Dead and Dying--Typhoon Coming On) / Joseph Mallord William Turner -- The Outcast / Richard Redgrave -- Washington Crossing the Delaware / Emanuel Gottlieb Leutze -- The Horse Fair / Rosa Bonheur -- Olympia / Édouard Manet -- Nocturne in Black and Gold: The Falling Rocket / James Abbott McNeill Whistler -- A Convalescent / James Tissot -- Le mariage de convenance / William Quiller Orchardson -- At the Moulin Rouge / Henri Marie Raymond de Toulouse-Lautrec -- Guernica / Pablo Picasso -- Christ of Saint John of the Cross / Salvador Dalí.…”
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The power of gold : Asante royal regalia from Ghana

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