Sojourner Truth, 'I Sell the Shadow to Support the Substance', 1864, Albumen silver print from glass negative, Image: 8.5 × 5.4 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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Sojourner Truth, I Sell, Shadow, Support, Substance, 1864, Albumen silver print, glass negative, Image, 8.5, 5.4 cm, 3 3/8, 2 1/8, Photographs, Unknown, American, Born Isabella, Baumfree, family, slaves, Ulster County, New York, sits, war, iconic portraits, anonymous photographer, studio, Detroit, sixty-seven-year-old abolitionist, never learned, read, write, pauses, knitting, looks pensively, camera
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