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Sojourner Truth
born into slavery as Isabella van Wagner
was liberated
a singer and hend speeches, a radical
used photography as a vehicle of language, to speak truth
Truth’s notion on the word
‘I don’t read such small stuff as letters, I read men and nations’ - denounces white supremacist academia of written over oral
Photographs of Sojourner Truth
Asked to remove painted backgrounds
carried a ‘bag of shadows’ filled with photos to sell, self sufficient through controlled representation
often seated with a daguerreotype on her lap her grandson, who died a prisoner of war
Lewis Douglass
Served in the 54th regiment and injured in Fort William