New Discovery: Robert S. Duncanson’s <em>Ruins of Carthage</em> (1845)

Abstract

By depicting a celebrated African site singled out by African Americans at an 1843 state convention in Michigan as proof that “we are worthy of the name of American citizens,” as asserted by Committee Chairman William Lambert, Duncanson was expressing race pride and alliance with African Americans seeking enfranchisement.

Keywords

• 7.1
• african american art
• nineteenth-century art
• robert s. duncanson
• theresa leininger-miller