Sojourner Truth, "I Sell the Shadow to Support the Substance", Unknown, 1864

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Sojourner Truth, 'I Sell the Shadow to Support the Substance', 1864, Albumen silver print from glass negative, Image: × cm (3 3/8 × 2 1/8 in.), Photographs, Unknown (American), Born Isabella Baumfree to a family of slaves in Ulster County, New York, Sojourner Truth sits for one of the war’s most iconic portraits in an anonymous photographer’s 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

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Size: 2789px × 3937px
Photo credit: © Artokoloro / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No

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