Messianic images of the New Jerusalem used by the prophet ce…
Messianic images of the New Jerusalem used by the prophet center on all the following except…
Messianic images of the New Jerusalem used by the prophet ce…
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Pаrt оf whаt the previоus phоtogrаph highlighted was photography capturing Black people acting as subjects of their own liberation, rather than people acted upon by others (kind of how I asked you to write your papers about slave thought). This photograph also shows Black people as subjects, as people. This photograph, taken in 1863, near Helena, Arkansas, is a view of a refugee camp that is not a "contraband" camp. Most widely-used photographs of "contraband" camps show neat rows of cabins, implying that the camps are oases of stability in the chaos of war. This photograph, by comparison, is considerably more ambivalent. One historian wondered if the photographer was trying to show the environmental damage of the war at the same time he was trying to show Black refugees in a good light. She wrote of these camps: "they were at once a place of despair and death and a site of refuge and hope and the making of freedom." Source: Thavolia Glymph, "Refugee Camp at Helena, Arkansas, 1863," in J. Matthew Gallman, and Gary W. Gallagher. Lens of War : Exploring Iconic Photographs of the Civil War. University of Georgia Press, 2015. EBSCOhost, search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=nlebk&AN=1018431&site=ehost-live&scope=site. (To see this image at full size, right-click (option-click for Mac) on the image and, from the context menu that pops up, select "Open image in new tab" or "Save image as..." to save it to your hard drive.) Question: What evidence do you see of a well-functioning refugee camp? What evidence suggests this might not be a well-functioning camp? How are the people in this image shown: as subjects, or objects, and why? As always, use and explain details from the image.