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Sojourner Truth : a life, a symbol

Sojourner Truth: ex-slave and fiery abolitionist, figure of imposing physique, riveting preacher and spellbinding singer who dazzled listeners with her wit and originality. Straight talking and unsentimental, Truth became a national symbol for strong black women - indeed, for all strong women. Like...

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Main Author: Painter, Nell Irvin, (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : W.W. Norton & Company, [1996]
Edition:First edition.
Subjects and Genres:
Truth, Sojourner, > 1799-1883.
African American abolitionists > Biography.
Abolitionists > United States > Biography.
Women abolitionists > United States > Biography.
Social reformers > United States > Biography.
Women social reformers > United States > Biography.
Biographies.
Online Access:Table of contents
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Table of Contents:
  • Isabella, Sojourner Truth, and American slavery
  • Isabella, a slave
  • Journey toward freedom
  • Sanctification
  • Plaintiff and witch
  • New York perfectionism
  • In the kingdom of Matthias
  • Isabella's New York City
  • Among the Millerites
  • Northampton
  • Douglass, Ruggles, and family
  • The Narrative of Sojourner Truth
  • Networks of antislavery feminism
  • Akron, 1851
  • Vengeance and womanhood
  • Spiritualism
  • The "Libyan Sibyl"
  • "Ar'n't I a woman?"
  • Partisan and aristocrat
  • Truth in photographs
  • Presidents
  • Washington's freedpeople
  • Woman suffrage
  • Kansas
  • The end of a life
  • The life of a symbol
  • Coda: The triumph of a symbol.

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