02720ckm a2200421 a 4500 000320383 20230712175445.0 kh boc 000626s1864 miunnn kneng d 1 3 ppl PPL dcrmg I sell the shadow to support the substance. Sojourner Truth. [graphic]. Michigan: Sojourner Truth, 1864. 1 photograph: albumen on card mount; mount 10 x 6 cm (4 x 2.5 in.) (carte-de-visite format) Title from item. Publication information from copyright statement on verso: Entered according to act of Congress in the year 1864, by Sojourner Truth, in the Clerk's Office, of the U. S. District Court, for the Eastern District of Mich. Three-quarter length portrait of the African American itinerant preacher, abolitionist, and women's rights advocate born into slavery and originally known as Isabella Baumfree. Shows Truth, seated, and attired in a dark-colored, long sleeved dress with white collar, white shawl with fringe, and a white cap. She wears wire-rimmed glasses and faces front and is turned slightly to her left. She holds knitting in her left hand which rests on a small table that has a decorative table cloth. A notebook and vase of flowers adorn the table. A string of yarn runs across her lap. Truth escaped to freedom in 1826. During the period of the Civil War, Truth captioned, marketed, copyrighted, and sold at least eleven different carte-de-visite portraits of herself at her lectures and through the mail to earn personal funds and advocate for the abolition of slavery. Her knitting probably alludes to her promotion of the handcraft as an industry for advancement for former enslaved persons. Lib. Company. Annual report, 2016, p. 66-67. Description revised 2022. Access points revised 2022. Truth, Sojourner, -1883 Portraits African American women abolitionists. African American women civil rights workers. African American women evangelists. Free African Americans. 84276 Knitting. lctgm 74912 Women's rights. lctgm 82793 Albumen prints 1860-1870. gmgpc Cartes de visite 1860-1870. gmgpc Portrait photographs 1860-1870. gmgpc Free women 1815-1861. local. SP1 Women. SP3 African American History Imprint PA. Philadelphia. 1864. Library Company of Philadelphia PRINT PRINT cdv portraits - sitter - Truth [P.2017.27] P.2017.27 302907 302907 000320383 ERIKA 40 20170720 1601 000320383 ERIKA 40 20170720 1621 000320383 ERIKA 40 20170720 1625 000320383 ERIKA 40 20170721 0930 000320383 ERIKA 40 20171020 1513 000320383 ERIKA 40 20180412 1055 000320383 ERIKA 40 20180412 1611 000320383 ERIKA 40 20180412 1615 000320383 ERIKA 40 20180816 1137 000320383 ERIKA 40 20220131 1207 000320383 ERIKA 40 20191204 1220 ppl PA. Philadelphia. 1864. Imprint