Sojourner truth--slave, prophet, legend / by Carleton Mabee, with Susan Mabee Newhouse. PRINT

By:

Carleton Mabee, 1914-2014

Contributor(s):

Newhouse, Susan Mabee

text

Media type:

unmediated

Carrier type:

volume

ISBN:

0814754848
9780814754849
0814755259
9780814755259

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DDC classification:

305.567092 20 WI Mab

LOC classification:

E185.97.T8 M32 1993

Other classification:

15.85

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Contents:

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.

Summary: Sojourner Truth is one of the most famous and most mythologized figures in American history. Pulitzer-Prize-winning biographer Carleton Mabee unearths heretofore-neglected sources and offers valuable new insights into the life of a woman who, against all odds, became a central figure in the struggle for the emancipation of slaves and women in Civil War America.

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Item type	Current library	Shelving location	Call number	Status	Date due	Barcode
Books	National Library of Jamaica	Rare Books Floor	305.567092 WI Mab (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available		1000000070736

Includes bibliographical references (pages 275-281) and index.

Sojourner Truth is one of the most famous and most mythologized figures in American history. Pulitzer-Prize-winning biographer Carleton Mabee unearths heretofore-neglected sources and offers valuable new insights into the life of a woman who, against all odds, became a central figure in the struggle for the emancipation of slaves and women in Civil War America.

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