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Enduring Truths : Sojourner's shadows and substance

"Runaway slave Sojourner Truth gained fame in the nineteenth century as an abolitionist, feminist, and orator and earned a living partly by selling photographic carte de visite portraits of herself at lectures and by mail. Cartes de visite, similar in format to calling cards, were relatively in...

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Main Author: Grigsby, Darcy Grimaldo, (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Chicago : The University of Chicago Press, 2015.
Subjects and Genres:
Truth, Sojourner, > 1799-1883.
Truth, Sojourner, > 1799-1883 > Portraits.
African American women abolitionists > United States > Biography.
African American women abolitionists > Portraits.
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Table of Contents:
  • Truth in Indiana
  • Truth as Libyan sibyl
  • Truth in Michigan
  • Shadows and substance
  • Truth's captioned cartes de visite (after 1864)
  • Shadows and chemistry
  • Texts and circulating paper
  • Truth's illiteracy
  • Truth's copyright
  • Money and the Civil War
  • Collecting and the late photographs
  • Album politics
  • Truth's last portraits (1881-82).

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