Product Description: In the decades leading up to the end of U.S. slavery, many free Blacks sat for daguerreotypes decorated in fine garments to document their self-possession. People pictured in these early photographs used portraiture to seize control over representation of the free Black body and reimagine Black visuality divorced from the cultural logics of slavery...read more

Product Description: Illustrated in full color. Toddlers will find encouragement toward an important developmental step between the soft pages of this innovative book.  A detachable toddler on a string can be fastened onto the scenes with Velcro tabs, providing hours of fun and some important lessons about potty training! Â...read more