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The Inner Passage: An Untold Story of Black Resistance Along a Southern Waterway

The Inner Passage: An Untold Story of Black Resistance Along a Southern Waterway

Richards, Virginia McGee
Perry, Imani
Estrin, James

Hardcover

General PhotographyGeneral Racism & Ethnic StudiesPhotography History & Criticism

Publisher Price: $39.95

ISBN10: 0262051710
ISBN13: 9780262051712
Publisher: MIT Press
Published: Apr 7 2026
Pages: 200
Weight: 1.85
Height: 0.70 Width: 8.20 Depth: 10.80
Language: English
A deeply moving photographic and narrative history of a southern waterway that the enslaved were forced to build for mercantile shipping--but which they used to escape slavery.

With gorgeously rich tritone photographs and a hard-bound cover with tip-in, perfect for fine art or history lovers.

Some of the earliest canals in colonial America, referred to as the Inner Passage, were constructed by enslaved people living in the Lowcountry of South Carolina in the early 1700s. In a paradox of history, for over a hundred years enslaved Black people used these canals, constructed for white plantation owners, to travel southward to freedom in Spanish Florida.

In this book, Virginia McGee Richards documents the lost narrative of the Inner Passage through 60 extraordinary photographs of landscapes altered by slavery and portraits of Lowcountry descendants, along with an essay describing her discovery of this untold history. In an accompanying essay, Imani Perry writes about her own journey on the Inner Passage, putting Black resistance to enslavement and Southern history into an immediate context. James Estrin brings decades of insight about photography and the power of visual storytelling to his affecting foreword. Together, these words and images offer a powerful living map of history.

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