Sojourner Truth, "I Sell the Shadow to Support the Substance" 1864 Unknown Born Isabella Baumfree to a family of slaves in Ulster County, New York, Sojourner Truth sits for one of the wars most iconic portraits in an anonymous photographers studio, likely in Detroit. The sixty-seven-year-old abolitionist, who never learned to read or write, pauses from her knitting and looks pensively at the camera. She was not only an antislavery activist and colleague of Frederick Douglass but also a memoirist and committed feminist, who shows herself engaged in the dignity of womens work. More than most sitters, Sojourner Truth is both the actor in the pictures drama and its author, and she used the card mount to promote and raise money for her many causes: I Sell the Shadow to Support the Substance. SOJOURNER TRUTH.The imprint on the verso features the sitters statement in bright red ink as well as a Michigan 1864 copyright in her name. By owning control of her image, her “shadow,” Sojourner T

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Sojourner Truth, "I Sell the Shadow to Support the Substance" 1864 Unknown Born Isabella Baumfree to a family of slaves in Ulster County, New York, Sojourner Truth sits for one of the wars most iconic portraits in an anonymous photographers studio, likely in Detroit. The sixty-seven-year-old abolitionist, who never learned to read or write, pauses from her knitting and looks pensively at the camera. She was not only an antislavery activist and colleague of Frederick Douglass but also a memoirist and committed feminist, who shows herself engaged in the dignity of womens work. More than most sitters, Sojourner Truth is both the actor in the pictures drama and its author, and she used the card mount to promote and raise money for her many causes: I Sell the Shadow to Support the Substance. SOJOURNER TRUTH.The imprint on the verso features the sitters statement in bright red ink as well as a Michigan 1864 copyright in her name. By owning control of her image, her “shadow,” Sojourner T

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