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In Sojourner Truth I Fought for the Rights of Women as well as Blacks, from the series I am the Black Woman
In Sojourner Truth I Fought for the Rights of Women as well as Blacks, from the series I am the Black Woman

In Sojourner Truth I Fought for the Rights of Women as well as Blacks, from the series I am the Black Woman

Artist/Maker (American, 1915–2012)
Date1946, printed 1989
MediumLinoleum cut
DimensionsImage: 8 7/8 × 5 7/8 in. (22.5 × 14.9 cm)
Sheet: 15 × 11 in. (38.1 × 27.9 cm)
Credit LineMuseum Friends Fund
Edition12/20
PortfolioI am the Black Woman
Object number2019.15
Status
Not on view
Copyright© José Sanchez / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / VEGAP, SpainMore Information
Elizabeth Catlett, an important Black artist, here depicts Sojourner Truth (ca. 1797–1883), the abolitionist and women’s rights activist. Born Isabella Baumtree, she gave herself the name Sojourner Truth upon becoming convinced that God had called her to go forth into the countryside to speak her truth to others. Born into slavery in New York state, she escaped to freedom in 1826. Two years later, she was one of the first Black women to go to court against a white man and win; Truth successfully sued to get her son back after he was sold to a man in Alabama by one of the men who had enslaved her. Truth dedicated her life to speaking out for a more equal society for Blacks and for women.
Exhibition History
Afterlives of the Black Atlantic
  • Allen Memorial Art Museum, Oberlin, OH (January 20, 2019 - May 24, 2020 )
New Acquisitions and Old Friends
  • Allen Memorial Art Museum, Oberlin, OH (August 3, 2021 - June 12, 2022 )
Collections
  • Modern & Contemporary
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