In History, Using Photography to Advance, Question or Alter Ideas About Race - NYTimes.com: The daguerreotype’s pride of place speaks not only to Truth’s love for her grandchild but also to her passionate engagement with photography. As Deborah Willis and Barbara Krauthamer write in their groundbreaking new book, “Envisioning Emancipation: Black Americans and the End of Slavery” (Temple University Press), Truth was probably the first black woman to actively distribute photographs of herself.
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