![]() ![]() Invented in France in 1854, cartes de visite quickly became popular in the U.S., and were utilized by abolitionists like Truth to disseminate their message.īefore becoming an abolitionist and activist, Truth was born Isabella Baumfree, a slave in upstate New York who actually learned how to speak Dutch before English. Or at least they’ll get to meet the peripatetic truth-teller the same way most 19 th century Americans did - through small rectangular photographs called cartes de visite.Ĭartes de visite are small, 2½- by 4-inch pieces of cardboard adorned with a photograph that functioned in a similar capacity to modern day business cards. ![]() Starting Wednesday, patrons of the Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive will get a chance to meet abolitionist, women’s rights activist, speaker, entrepreneur, runaway slave, and illiterate memoirist Sojourner Truth. I Sell the Shadow to Support the Substance ![]()
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