Sojourner's Shadows and Substance
by
Darcy Grimaldo Grigsby
Language: English
Release Date: September 21, 2015
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...