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This lot is closed for bidding. Bidding ended on 4/28/2022
Rare CDV of abolitionist and women's rights activist Sojourner Truth from 1864. CDV measures 2.5'' x 4'' with printed caption on mount reading ''I Sell the Shadow to Support the Substance / Sojourner Truth''. Verso reads ''Entered according to act of Congress in the year 1864, by Sojourner Truth, in the Clerk's Office, of the U.S. District Court, for the Eastern District of Mich.'' Toning and light wear, overall in very good condition. A rare original photo of escaped slave Sojourner Truth, the first black woman to win a trial against a white man in order to reclaim her son who had been sold into slavery.
Original Sojourner Truth CDV from 1864
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