Fugitives Hiding in Plain Sight: Reflections on Flavius Fisher’s Dismal Swamp
Maier Museum of Art at Randolph College 1 Quinlan St., Lynchburg, VAImage Credit: Flavius J. Fisher, Dismal Swamp, ca. 1858, oil on canvas Gift of Mrs. Robert N. Winfree, 1976 At a time when draconian enforcement of the federal Fugitive Slave Act was dramatically escalating sectional tensions, viewers of Virginia artist Flavius Fisher’s Dismal Swamp (c. 1858) knew they were seeing much more than a mere […]