V polovin\u011b 19. stolet\u00ed vznikl pozoruhodn\u00fd daguerrotyp, kter\u00fd nab\u00edz\u00ed vz\u00e1cn\u00fd pohled do \u017eivota zotro\u010den\u00fdch osob a bavln\u00e1\u0159sk\u00e9ho pr\u016fmyslu. Tento sn\u00edmek, kter\u00fd z\u00edskalo Muzeum Nelson-Atkins v Kansas City, je pova\u017eov\u00e1n za nejstar\u0161\u00ed zn\u00e1mou fotografii zotro\u010den\u00fdch Afroameri\u010dan\u016f pracuj\u00edc\u00edch s bavlnou.<\/p>\n\n
Daguerrotypie zachycuje majitele plant\u00e1\u017ee v Georgii p\u00f3zuj\u00edc\u00edho po boku skupiny zotro\u010den\u00fdch osob. T\u0159i mu\u017ei nesou velk\u00e9 ko\u0161e bavlny na hlav\u00e1ch, zat\u00edmco mal\u00e9 d\u00edt\u011b sed\u00ed nedaleko na zemi. \u017dena vykukuje ze dve\u0159\u00ed a dal\u0161\u00ed stoj\u00ed u studny a d\u00edv\u00e1 se p\u0159\u00edmo p\u0159ed sebe.<\/p>\n\n
Experti se domn\u00edvaj\u00ed, \u017ee daguerrotypie byla po\u0159\u00edzena v okrese Greene v Georgii v 50. letech 19. stolet\u00ed. Pravd\u011bpodobn\u011b si ji objednal majitel plant\u00e1\u017ee Samuel T. Gentry, aby zdokumentoval sv\u016fj blahobyt a \u00fast\u0159edn\u00ed \u00falohu otrock\u00e9 pr\u00e1ce v jeho provozu.<\/p>\n\n
Daguerrotypie odhaluje drsn\u00e9 reality otroctv\u00ed na jihu p\u0159ed ob\u010danskou v\u00e1lkou. Zotro\u010den\u00e9 osoby zobrazen\u00e9 na sn\u00edmku nesou t\u011b\u017ek\u00e1 b\u0159emena a jejich v\u00fdrazy vyjad\u0159uj\u00ed smutek a rezignaci. P\u0159\u00edtomnost psa, kter\u00fd se \u0161k \u0161kub\u00e1 ve sv\u00e9m vod\u00edtku, nazna\u010duje neust\u00e1lou hrozbu n\u00e1sil\u00ed, kter\u00e9mu zotro\u010den\u00e9 osoby \u010delily.<\/p>\n\n
Zat\u00edmco existuj\u00ed i jin\u00e9 sn\u00edmky zotro\u010den\u00fdch osob pracuj\u00edc\u00edch s bavlnou, Gentryho daguerrotypie je unik\u00e1tn\u00ed, proto\u017ee nebyla po\u0159\u00edzena na rozs\u00e1hl\u00e9 pob\u0159e\u017en\u00ed plant\u00e1\u017ei. M\u00edsto toho zobrazuje operaci men\u0161\u00edho rozsahu, typickou pro v\u011bt\u0161inu otrok\u00e1\u0159\u016f na jihu.<\/p>\n\n
Daguerrotypie tak\u00e9 vrh\u00e1 sv\u011btlo na socioekonomickou hierarchii na jihu p\u0159ed ob\u010danskou v\u00e1lkou. Samuel Gentry nebyl \u010dlenem elitn\u00ed t\u0159\u00eddy plant\u00e1\u017en\u00edk\u016f, ale sna\u017eil se zlep\u0161it sv\u016fj status z\u00edsk\u00e1v\u00e1n\u00edm p\u016fdy a zotro\u010den\u00fdch osob.<\/p>\n\n
V\u00fdznamn\u00e9 postaven\u00ed zotro\u010den\u00fdch Afroameri\u010dan\u016f na daguerrotypii odr\u00e1\u017e\u00ed \u00fast\u0159edn\u00ed \u00falohu otroctv\u00ed v ji\u017eansk\u00e9 ekonomice a spole\u010dnosti. Bohatstv\u00ed a status byly \u010dasto m\u011b\u0159eny po\u010dtem vlastn\u011bn\u00fdch zotro\u010den\u00fdch osob.<\/p>\n\n
Daguerrotypie slou\u017e\u00ed jako siln\u00e1 p\u0159ipom\u00ednka hr\u016fz otroctv\u00ed. Je to sv\u011bdectv\u00ed o odolnosti a utrpen\u00ed zotro\u010den\u00fdch osob a tak\u00e9 o boji proti t\u00e9to \u00fatla\u010dn\u00e9 instituci.<\/p>\n\n
Sb\u00edrka daguerrotypi\u00ed v Muzeu Nelson-Atkins zahrnuje sn\u00edmky abolicionist\u016f, jako jsou Frederick Douglass, Harriet Beecher Stowe a Lucretia Mott. Tyto sn\u00edmky zd\u016fraz\u0148uj\u00ed \u00fasil\u00ed t\u011bch, kte\u0159\u00ed pracovali na odhalen\u00ed zla otroctv\u00ed a prosazovali jeho zru\u0161en\u00ed.<\/p>\n\n
Gentryho daguerrotypie je cenn\u00fd historick\u00fd z\u00e1znam, kter\u00fd poskytuje vhled do \u017eivota zotro\u010den\u00fdch osob a instituce otroctv\u00ed. Je to p\u0159ipom\u00ednka d\u016fle\u017eitosti uchov\u00e1v\u00e1n\u00ed takov\u00fdch z\u00e1znam\u016f, aby se zajistilo, \u017ee hr\u016fzy minulosti nebudou nikdy zapomenuty.<\/p>\n\n
Daguerrotypie je p\u016fsobiv\u00e9 um\u011bleck\u00e9 d\u00edlo, kter\u00e9 zachycuje jak kr\u00e1su, tak brutalitu minul\u00e9 \u00e9ry. Je to sv\u011bdectv\u00ed o trval\u00e9 s\u00edle fotografie dokumentovat historii a inspirovat spole\u010densk\u00e9 zm\u011bny.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Otroci a ran\u00fd bavln\u00e1\u0159sk\u00fd pr\u016fmysl: Historick\u00fd daguerrotyp Historick\u00fd v\u00fdznam daguerrotypie V polovin\u011b 19. stolet\u00ed vznikl pozoruhodn\u00fd daguerrotyp, kter\u00fd nab\u00edz\u00ed vz\u00e1cn\u00fd pohled do \u017eivota zotro\u010den\u00fdch osob a bavln\u00e1\u0159sk\u00e9ho pr\u016fmyslu. Tento sn\u00edmek,…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[18348,18347,350,18346,18350,765,18349],"class_list":["post-13624","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-antebellum-south","tag-cotton-industry","tag-daguerreotype","tag-enslaved-individuals","tag-historical-record","tag-slavery","tag-plantation-life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lifescienceart.com\/cs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13624","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lifescienceart.com\/cs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lifescienceart.com\/cs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lifescienceart.com\/cs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lifescienceart.com\/cs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13624"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.lifescienceart.com\/cs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13624\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13625,"href":"https:\/\/www.lifescienceart.com\/cs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13624\/revisions\/13625"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lifescienceart.com\/cs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13624"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lifescienceart.com\/cs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13624"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lifescienceart.com\/cs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13624"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}