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"A symbol of the strength of African-American women, and a champion of the rights of all women, Sojourner Truth was an illiterate former slave named Isabella who became a vastly powerful orator. Dictated to a neighbor and first published in 1850, Truth's celebrated story chronicles her life as a slave in New York State, her 1827 emancipation under state law, her religious experiences and her transformation into an extraordinary abolitionist, feminist, and impassioned speaker. Truth's magnetism brought her fame in her own time, and her narrative gives us a vivid picture of nineteenth-century life in the North, where blacks, enslaved or free, lived in relative isolation from one another." "Based on the most complete text, the 1884 edition of the Narrative, this volume contains the "Book of Life" - a collection of letters and biographical sketches about Truth, including the controversial transcription of her "Ar'n't I a Woman" speech and Harriet Beecher Stowe's 1863 essay "Sojourner Truth, the Libyan Sibyl" - as well as "A Memorial Chapter" about her death. In her Introduction, historian and Truth biographer Nell Irvin Painter looks at the woman behind the myth."--BOOK JACKET.
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Narrative of Sojourner Truth: a bondswoman of olden time, emancipated by the New York Legislature in the early part of the present century : with a history of her labors and correspondence drawn from her "Book of Life" : also, a memorial chapter, giving the particulars of her last sickness and death
2001, Academic Affairs Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
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Narrative of Sojourner Truth: A bondswoman of olden time (Heritage series)
1996, Candace Press
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Information from publisher: Narrative of Sojourner Truth, by Olive Gilbert, Leeds, Mass. Book of life, by Frances W. Titus.
This electronic edition is part of the UNC-CH digitization project's database, Documenting the American South. It is a part of the collection North American slave narratives.
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Transcribed from microfilm of: Narrative of Sojourner Truth : a bondswoman of olden time, emancipated by the New York Legislature in the early part of the present century : with a history of her labors and correspondence drawn from her "Book of Life" : also, a memorial chapter, giving the particulars of her last sickness and death. Battle Creek, Mich. : Review and Herald Office, 1884. xii, 13-320, 32 p. : port. "In memoriam - Sojourner Truth": p. [2]-32. "The first 128 pages of this book are reprinted from stereotype plates made in 1850. Since then, momentous changes have taken place." - P. vi.
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