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COURSES FALL 2007

Histart 24.2

FRESHMAN SEMINAR: SOJOUNRNER TURTH'S CARTES-DE-VISITE (1 UNIT, P/NP) Fridays 9:00-11:00 425 Doe, CCN 05431 Darcy Grigsby

This seminar will investigate the life and photography of former slave, abolitionist and orator Sojourner Truth in conjunction with the On the Same Page program's focus on Garry Wills' book Lincoln at Gettysburg. Sojourner Truth was active during the Civil War and had met Abraham Lincoln who called her Aunty Sojourner. During the 1860s, when Sojourner Truth made and circulated her photographs, the United States was undergoing the crisis of the civil war and confronting the fundamental questions of abolition and the rights of "freedmen." At the same time the country was witnessing rapid technological transformation and national consolidation. Relevant to Sojourner Truth's use of photography are the modernization of the postal system, the invention of a national form of paper money, and the expansion of copyright law to include photography. This seminar is part of the On the Same Page initiative: http://onthesamepage.berkeley.edu. (This seminar will meet the first eight weeks of the semester.)

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