A new book from Temple University Press, published in honor of the Emancipation Proclamation's 150th anniversary, provides an opportunity to address this urgent question: How should we see other people? The book, “Envisioning Emancipation: Black Americans and the End of Slavery,” is a collection of photographs with the aim of giving life to, and a new perspective on, how black people envisioned themselves as they experienced slavery, the Civil War and Emancipation.