Bidspirit auction | Women's Rights Advocate

Women's Rights Advocate - Ives, Blakeslee Company Bridgeport, CT - Circa 1880's From the Gail Furman Collection Excellent The Ives Company made a group of mechanical toys featuring African-American figures involved in various tasks. This particular toy is unique because it depicts an actual historical personage. This miniature mechanical women's right advocate is a depiction of real suffragette Sojourner Truth (1797-1883). She had been born into slavery but won her emancipation in 1826.