American Anti-Slavery Society: Quick Facts

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Open booklet showing a green page with a printed message to children on the left and the cover of The Slave's Friend No. 2 on the right, featuring an illustration of an enslaved person kneeling in prayer beneath a tree.

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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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