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Temple University Press book reviewed in New York Times
Posted Dec 20, 2012
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New York Times
Deborah Willis and Barbara Krauthamer write in their groundbreaking new book, Envisioning Emancipation: Black Americans and the End of Slavery, published by Temple University Press, that Sojourner Truth was probably the first black woman to actively distribute photographs of herself. The book explores how blacks “positioned themselves and were posed by others” in order to advance, question or alter prevailing ideas about race.