Article: Sojourner Truth: Slave, Prophet, Legend.

In an effort to raise money while on speaking tours, Sojourner Truth would offer for sale to the public carte-de-visite photographs of herself that proclaimed the motto "I sell the shadow to support the substance." Until now, this motto could also have described the conditions of scholarship pertaining to the life and work of Sojourner Truth. It was scant on substance, and usually covered familiar and oftentimes undocumented material. When Jean Fagan Yellin assembled The Pen is Ours, a bibliography of writings by and about nineteenth-century African American women, she listed fewer than forty twentieth-century articles about Sojourner Truth. Several circumstances led to this ...

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