{"id":10,"date":"2019-12-13T21:19:22","date_gmt":"2019-12-13T21:19:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/africana-studies-1109-fall-2019-patriotism\/?page_id=10"},"modified":"2019-12-16T02:53:30","modified_gmt":"2019-12-16T02:53:30","slug":"sojourner-truth","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/africana-studies-1109-fall-2019-patriotism\/sojourner-truth\/","title":{"rendered":"Sojourner Truth (1797-1883)"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-10 gallery-columns-3 gallery-size-thumbnail'><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/africana-studies-1109-fall-2019-patriotism\/sojourner-truth\/soujourner-truth-image-1\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/africana-studies-1109-fall-2019-patriotism\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/317\/2019\/12\/Soujourner-Truth-Image-1-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-163\" srcset=\"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/africana-studies-1109-fall-2019-patriotism\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/317\/2019\/12\/Soujourner-Truth-Image-1-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/africana-studies-1109-fall-2019-patriotism\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/317\/2019\/12\/Soujourner-Truth-Image-1-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/africana-studies-1109-fall-2019-patriotism\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/317\/2019\/12\/Soujourner-Truth-Image-1-768x768.jpg 768w, https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/africana-studies-1109-fall-2019-patriotism\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/317\/2019\/12\/Soujourner-Truth-Image-1-1024x1024.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/africana-studies-1109-fall-2019-patriotism\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/317\/2019\/12\/Soujourner-Truth-Image-1.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 85vw, 150px\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<figcaption class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-163'>\n\t\t\t\tThese are carte-de-visite portraits of the African American abolitionist, temperance activist, and women&#8217;s rights advocate, Sojourner Truth, sold to get people to sponsor her speaking tours (Hutchinson, 2019).\n\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon portrait'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/africana-studies-1109-fall-2019-patriotism\/sojourner-truth\/sojourner-truth-image-2\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/africana-studies-1109-fall-2019-patriotism\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/317\/2019\/12\/Sojourner-Truth-image-2-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-164\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<figcaption class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-164'>\n\t\t\t\tSojourner Truth carte-de-visite\n\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon portrait'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/africana-studies-1109-fall-2019-patriotism\/sojourner-truth\/sojourner-truth-image-3\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/africana-studies-1109-fall-2019-patriotism\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/317\/2019\/12\/Sojourner-Truth-Image-3-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-165\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<figcaption class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-165'>\n\t\t\t\tSojourner Truth carte-de-visite\n\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon portrait'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/africana-studies-1109-fall-2019-patriotism\/sojourner-truth\/sojourner-truth-image-4\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/africana-studies-1109-fall-2019-patriotism\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/317\/2019\/12\/Sojourner-Truth-Image-4-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-166\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<figcaption class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-166'>\n\t\t\t\tSojourner Truth carte-de-visite\n\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon portrait'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/africana-studies-1109-fall-2019-patriotism\/sojourner-truth\/sojourne-truth-image-5\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/africana-studies-1109-fall-2019-patriotism\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/317\/2019\/12\/Sojourne-Truth-Image-5-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-167\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<figcaption class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-167'>\n\t\t\t\tSojourner Truth carte-de-visite\n\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Sojourner Truth was born into slavery as Isabella Bomfree in 1797, just after the Revolutionary War, in New York. Truth suffered various forms of abuse and was forced to do hard physical labor while a slave. After escaping slavery with her daughter, an abolitionist family bought her freedom and Truth moved to New York. Truth\u2019s spirituality grew as she became a devout Pentecostal Christian. Truth\u2019s spiritual encounter with the holy spirit inspired her to begin her speaking career and she vowed to \u201cpreach the truth.\u201d This vow inspired her to change her name to Sojourner Truth and she participated in many religious revivals in the middle of the Great Awakening (Michals, 2015)<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">. Although Truth did not know how to read or write, she was a dynamic speaker particularly concerned with controlling the way in which she was visually portrayed. The following photographs contrast the ways that black women at the time were typically visually portrayed. In these photos, Truth is pictured doing many things like holding a book, posing as if she is knitting, her posture is poised, her facial expression suggests that she must carry a great deal of wisdom, and a number of other things. In other words, Truth is depicted as a respectable and wise old women from the way she is dressed in refined, polished clothing to the way she positions her body. Her portrayal challenges the tendency in America to equate black women as property and anything but respectable women. Through her photographs, Truth asserts the right black women have to be considered beautiful. Truth is reclaiming the humanity and womanhood of black women and presenting one of the first images in America that emphasize this unpopular and unconventional message. <\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sojourner Truth was born into slavery as Isabella Bomfree in 1797, just after the Revolutionary War, in New York. Truth suffered various forms of abuse and was forced to do hard physical labor while a slave. After escaping slavery with her daughter, an abolitionist family bought her freedom and Truth moved to New York. Truth\u2019s &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/africana-studies-1109-fall-2019-patriotism\/sojourner-truth\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Sojourner Truth (1797-1883)&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-10","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/africana-studies-1109-fall-2019-patriotism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/10","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/africana-studies-1109-fall-2019-patriotism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/africana-studies-1109-fall-2019-patriotism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/africana-studies-1109-fall-2019-patriotism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/africana-studies-1109-fall-2019-patriotism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/africana-studies-1109-fall-2019-patriotism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/10\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/africana-studies-1109-fall-2019-patriotism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}