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Author(s):	Darcy Grimaldo Grigsby

Date:	2024	Format:	pdf	Language:	English	ISBN/ASIN:	022619213X
Pages:	224	OCR:		Quality:		ISBN13:
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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 inexpensive collectibles that quickly became a new mode of mass communication. Despite being illiterate, Truth copyrighted her photographs in her name and added the caption I Sell the Shadow to Support the Substance. Sojourner Truth.

Featuring the largest collection of Truths photographs ever published, Enduring Truths is the first book to explore how she used her image, the press, the postal service, and copyright laws to support her activism and herself. Darcy Grimaldo Grigsby establishes a range of important contexts for Truths portraits, including the strategic role of photography and copyright for an illiterate former slave  the shared politics of Truths cartes de visite and federal banknotes, which were both created to fund the Union cause  and the ways that photochemical limitations complicated the portrayal of different skin tones. Insightful and powerful, 
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