I sell the shadow to support the substance. Sojourner Truth

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Creator / Contributor: Truth, Sojourner, 1799-1883
Title: I sell the shadow to support the substance. Sojourner Truth
Collection Title: Treasures of the Patricia D. Klingenstein Library
Date: 1864
Description: Carte de visite photograph of the antislavery activist, feminist, and social reformer Sojourner Truth. The "shadow" refers to her photographic image, which she sold to raise money for her various progressive causes.
Identifier: Print Room -- PR-011 -- Series I, Box 16, T
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Subject: African Americans--Photographs
Abolitionists--United States--Photographs
Social reformers--United States--Photographs
Subject personal name: Truth, Sojourner, 1799-1883
Material type or medium of original: cartes-de-visite (card photographs)
photographs
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