What was sojourner truths claim to fame

In the s, a runaway slave who called herself Sojourner Truth electrified American audiences with her accounts of life in bondage. But her fame depended on more than her speaking skills: She was one of the first Americans to use photography to build her celebrity and earn a living. Now, a new exhibition at the Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive tells the story of how Truth used photography to help end slavery. The exhibition, Sojourner Truth, Photography, and the Fight Against Slavery , showcases the photographs the speaker sold to support herself.

Each carte de visite—a small photograph mounted on a card—was, in days before television and social media, its own form of viral marketing. Volpe explains. Cheap, small and easy to collect and pass from hand to hand, they were tailor-made for both news buffs and sentimental folks.

Nobody ever helps me into carriages, or over mud-puddles, or gives me any best place! And ain't I a woman? Look at me! Look at my arm! I have ploughed and planted, and gathered into barns, and no man could head me! I could work as much and eat as much as a man - when I could get it - and bear the lash as well! I have borne thirteen children, and seen most all sold off to slavery, and when I cried out with my mother's grief, none but Jesus heard me!

Then they talk about this thing in the head; what's this they call it? What's that got to do with women's rights or negroes' rights? If my cup won't hold but a pint, and yours holds a quart, wouldn't you be mean not to let me have my little half measure full?

Then that little man in black there, he says women can't have as much rights as men, 'cause Christ wasn't a woman! Where did your Christ come from? Bernard, Jacqueline. New York: Feminist Press, Butler, Mary G. David, Linda and Erlene Stetson. Krass, Peter. Sojourner Truth. New York: Chelsea House, Mabee, Carleton and Susan Mabee Newhouse.

Sojourner Truth - Slave, Prophet, Legend. Ortiz, Victoria. Philadelphia: Lippincott, Painter, Nell Irvin, ed. The Narrative of Sojourner Truth. New York: Penguin Books, Olive Gilbert, ed.

Boston: Printed for the Author, J. Sojourner Truth Edited by Debra Michals, PhD Lesson Plan. Seneca Falls and Suffrage. Works Cited. Folsom, Burton W.