Zócalo Public SquareEllen Craft – Zócalo Public Square https://legacy.zocalopublicsquare.org Ideas Journalism With a Head and a Heart Mon, 21 Oct 2024 07:01:54 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 In the 19th Century, It Became Harder to Perceive What Blackness Was https://legacy.zocalopublicsquare.org/2016/05/06/in-the-19th-century-it-became-harder-to-perceive-what-blackness-was/viewings/highlight-videos/ https://legacy.zocalopublicsquare.org/2016/05/06/in-the-19th-century-it-became-harder-to-perceive-what-blackness-was/viewings/highlight-videos/#respond Fri, 06 May 2016 07:01:50 +0000 Zocalo https://legacy.zocalopublicsquare.org/?p=72772 At “What Does Blackness Mean?”, a Zócalo/Getty “Open Art” event at the Getty Museum, Harvard art historian Sarah E. Lewis explains one of the reasons the 19th century was a pivotal one in understanding the color black, especially in the sense of who was black. She shares the story of Ellen Craft, a fair-skinned woman from Georgia who escaped from slavery by posing as a white male plantation owner.

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