Sojourner Truth CDV Portrait

Carte-de-visite (CDV) of African-American reformer, abolitionist, and women’s rights activist Sojourner Truth. Imprint on front reads "I Sell the Shadow to Support the Substance, Sojourner Truth,” with text on verso reading "Entered according to the act of Congress in the year 1864, by Sojourner Truth, in the Clerk's Office, of the US District Court for the Eastern District of Mich."

[Civil War, Union, Confederate, Antique Photography, Daguerreotype, Ambrotype, Tintype, CDV, Albumen, Abolition, Slavery, Black Americana, African-American]