Enduring Truths: Sojourner's Shadows and Substance

sku: COM9780226192130USED
ACCORDING TO OUR RECORDS THIS PRODUCT IS NOT AVAILABLE NOW
$20.19
Shipping from: Canada
Description
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 Truth’s 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 Truth’s portraits, including the strategic role of photography and copyright for an illiterate former slave; the shared politics of Truth’s 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, Enduring Truths shows how Truth made her photographic portrait worth money in order to end slavery—and also became the strategic author of her public self.
Price history chart & currency exchange rate
Customers also viewed

+114%
29%
$39.83
Batman - The Telltale Series Shadows Edition AR XBOX One / Series X|S CD Key
kinguin.net
+2%
19%
$49.95
Assassin's Creed Shadows - Helix Credits Extra Large Pack 6600 Xbox Series X|S CD Key
kinguin.net
-2%
14%
$13.00
Assassin's Creed Shadows - Naoe Sekiryu Character Pack DLC EU (without DE) PS5 CD Key
kinguin.net
10%
$20.08
Assassin's Creed Shadows - Helix Credits Medium Pack 2300 Xbox Series X|S CD Key
kinguin.net
1%
$17.99
Zeuib Shadows Behind Print 3 Pieces Children Fork Spoon Knife Set with Travel Case for Lunch Box Stainless Steel Kids Silverware Flatware Set Kids Utensil Set for School (Fork Spoon Knife)
walmart.com
1%
$64.38
Backrest Chair Free Shipping Zero Gravity Chair Outdoor Folding Recliner Lounge Chair With Attachable Sunshade Canopy and Holder
aliexpress.com