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One woman watches as another examines with a magnifying glass an ornate, decorative image on a printed page

Sojourner Truth and the Power of a Portrait

Posted by: Stephen Wesson

A photograph of the abolitionist and suffrage activist Sojourner Truth that appears in the Library's newest Primary Source Set for educators, "Civil War Images: Depictions of African Americans in the War Effort," provides an opportunity to discover the questions that the objects in a portrait can raise about the message that image might have been meant to convey.