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An edition of Narrative of Sojourner Truth (1850)

Narrative of Sojourner Truth

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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.

Publish Date
Publisher
Dover Publications
Language
English
Pages
74

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Edition Notes

Written by Olive Gilbert, based on information provided by Sojourner Truth.
"An unabridged republication of the work first published in 1850. The introduction has been specially prepared for this edition."--Verso t.p.

Published in
Mineola, N.Y
Series
Dover thrift editions
Genre
Biography.

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
305.5/67/092, B
Library of Congress
E185.97.T8 G55 1997, E185.97.T8G55 1997

The Physical Object

Pagination
vi, 74 p. ;
Number of pages
74

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL674766M
Internet Archive
narrativeofsojo000gilb
ISBN 10
048629899X
LCCN
97020938
Library Thing
20284
Goodreads
349076

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