Sojourner Truth : : Slave, Prophet, Legend /

Sojourner Truth : : Slave, Prophet, Legend / / Carleton Mabee.

Many Americans have long since forgotten that there ever was slavery along the Hudson River. Yet Sojourner Truth was born a slave near the Hudson River in Ulster County, New York, in the late 1700s. Called merely Isabella as a slave, once freed she adopted the name of Sojourner Truth and became a na...

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Mabee, Carleton,
Place / Publishing House:New York, NY : : New York University Press, , [1993]
©1993
Year of Publication:1993
Language:English
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Illustrations
  • Preface
  • Chronology of Truth's Life
  • 1. Growing Up a Slave
  • 2. Slave Mother
  • 3. Monstrous Kingdom
  • 4. New Missions
  • 5. Why Did She Never Learn to Read?
  • 6. Her Famous Akron Speech
  • 7. Confronting Douglass
  • 8. Northampton to Battle Creek
  • 9. Underground Railroader?
  • 10. Romanticized: Libyan Sibyl
  • 11. With President Lincoln and the Freedmen
  • 12. Riding Washington's Horse Cars
  • 13. Moving Freed Slaves to the North
  • 14. Western Land
  • 15. Women's Rights
  • 16. Goose Wings and High Heels
  • 17. Drink and Smoke
  • 18. Friend Titus
  • 19. Friends and Supporters
  • 20. Singer
  • 21. Talking with God
  • Notes
  • Bibliography of Works Cited
  • Acknowledgments
  • Index

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