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OriginalCabinet card of Sojourner Truth, which she sold to raise money to support herself and continue her work. Purchased in 1870 from a photograph copyrighted to her in 1864.
Reason
While I kind of agree with the other photo being the lead, Sojourner Truth sold photographs of herself to support her work, and this is the only one in the article that shows that. It's also really not an article we have a lot of photographs for.
Fun fact: This is the same image used on most of the extant carte-de-visites of her, but in a much more generous crop and higher quality since it's a cabinet card. Which presumably means she had the negatives, since there weren't cabinet cards in 1864. Compare commons:Category:Sojourner Truth
Articles in which this image appears
Sojourner Truth et al.
FP category for this image
Given Frederick Douglass and many suffragettes are already classified there, since they sought political change, Wikipedia:Featured pictures/People/Political.
Creator
Unknown photographer, restored by Adam Cuerden.

Promoted File:Cabinet Card of Sojourner Truth - Collection of the National Museum of African American History and Culture.jpg --Armbrust The Homunculus 23:05, 10 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]