Enduring truths : Sojourner's shadows and substance /
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 inexpens...
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Chicago :
University of Chicago Press,
2015.
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Table of Contents:
- Truth in Indiana
- Truth as Libyan sibyl
- Truth in Michigan
- Shadows and substance
- Truth's captioned cartes de visite (after 1864)
- Shadows and chemistry
- Texts and circulating paper
- Truth's illiteracy
- Truth's copyright
- Money and the Civil War
- Collecting and the late photographs
- Album politics
- Truth's last portraits (1881-82).