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Sojourner Truth Portrait of Sojourner Truth wearing a headscarf and shawl on the left page, with the title page of her 1850 autobiography, Narrative of Sojourner Truth, on the right.
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Sojourner Truth, c. 1870, photograph by Randall Studio. To earn a living, Truth sold her autobiography and portraits like this one. Here, her inscription, "I Sell the Shadow to Support the Substance," emphasizes her financial acumen.
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Suffragettes with signs in London, possibly 1912 (based on Monday, Nov. 25). Woman suffrage movement, women's suffrage movement, suffragists, women's rights, feminism.
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Pioneering advocate against slavery and for women’s rights
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Why Sojourner Truth Changed Her Name
Learn more about the life of American evangelist and social reformer Sojourner Truth.
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The journey to women's voting rights and the Nineteenth Amendment
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Sojourner Truth
To make money, abolitionist and women's rights advocate Sojourner Truth sold cartes-de-visite...
National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C. (object no. NPG.79.220)
Her autobiography
Unable to read or write, Sojourner Truth dictated her story to a friend.
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Sojourner Truth.
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