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

By:

Mabee, Carleton, 1914-2014

Contributor(s):

Newhouse, Susan Mabee

Publication details: New York : New York University Press, 1993.Description: xvi, 293 pages : illustrations ; 24 cmContent type:

text

Media type:

unmediated

Carrier type:

volume

ISBN:

0814754848
9780814754849
0814755259
9780814755259

Subject(s):

Genre/Form:

DDC classification:

305.5/67/092 B 20

LOC classification:

E185.97.T8 M32 1993

Other classification:

15.85

Online resources:

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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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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