Early Indigenous Literatures

Wheatley Photo Annotation 3

The photo also interestingly has its own publishing information that varies from the title page. Here, it notes that the photograph “published according to an Act of Parliament, Sept 1, 1773, by Arch Bell.” This shows that the drawing was able to be published through a governmental act. The photograph publishing industry appears to have had different guidelines for what could be printed and published, and it seems like a governmental act offered an exception for a Black figure’s photo to be included.
 

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