Figure 4

Citation

photographer Unknown Photographer Photographer. “Sojurner Truth.” circa 1865. Wikimedia Commons Collection. Mirror of Race, 11 Feb. 2021, mirrorofrace.bc.edu/items/show/137. Accessed 18 May 2024.

Title

Sojurner Truth

Subject

Sojurner Truth

Creator

photographer Unknown Photographer Photographer

Date

circa 1865

Type

Studio Portrait

Identifier

Figure 4

Rights Holder

Wikimedia Commons Collection

Original Format

Carte de visit, albumen print

Factual Commentary

Sojourner Truth (1797-1883) was born Isabella Baumfree in Swartekill, New York, when slavery was still legal in that state. She escaped in 1823, and in 1843 she took the name Sojourner Truth to symbolize her pilgrimage through this world as a witness to God’s truth of liberation for all human beings. A campaigner against slavery and for women’s rights, she delivered her famous “Ain’t I a Woman?”speech in 1851 at the Women’s Rights Convention. Along with Frederick Douglass, she helped recruit African American soldiers during the Civil War