Written for Sojourner Truth by Olive Gilbert.
Born a slave in New York state around 1797 and given the name Isabella Baumfree, Sojourner Truth soon believed that God wanted her to be a travelling preacher who always spoke the truth.
While most information about individual slaves in the South is unknown, lost, or has been deliberately concealed, Sojourner Truth was a slave in New York State, and there are meticulous records detailing her life, in addition to those in ...
One of the most famous and admired African American women in U.S. history, Sojourner Truth sang, preached, and debated at camp meetings across the country, led by her devotion to the antislavery movement and her ardent pursuit of women's ...
Sojourner Truth was an American abolitionist and women's rights activist. Truth was born into slavery in Swartekill, New York, but escaped with her infant daughter to freedom in 1826.
After going to court to recover her son, she became the first black woman to win such a case against a white man. Sojourner Truth was named Isabella Baumfree when she was born. She gave herself the name Sojourner Truth in 1843.
Narrative of Sojourner Truth: A Northern Slave: Large Print by Sojourner Truth Sojourner Truth was an African-American abolitionist and women's rights activist.
Sojourner Truth (1797 - November 26, 1883) was an American abolitionist and women's rights activist. Truth was born into slavery in Swartekill, New York, but escaped with her infant daughter to freedom in 1826.
Narrative of Sojourner Truth written by Olive GilbertBased on information provided by Sojourner TruthSojourner Truth, 1797 - November 26, 1883, was an African-American abolitionist and women's rights activist.
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Narrative of Sojourner Truth, Memoirs of an American Slave, By Olive Gilbert, Based on information provided by Sojourner Truth, Her best-known extemporaneous speech on gender inequalities, "Ain't I a Woman?", was delivered in 1851 at the ...
Sojourner Truth is considered, along with Harriet Tubman, to be one of the two most influential African American women of the nineteenth century.
She eventually joined the Northampton Association, another organization with utopian pretensions. There she met Olive Gilbert (1801-1884), who served as the amanuensis for the 1850 first edition of Truth's Narrative.
"SWEET is the virgin honey, though the wild bee store it in a reed; And bright the jewelled band that circleth an Ethiop's arm; Pure are the grains of gold in the turbid stream of the Ganges; And fair the living flowers that spring from the ...
James and Betsey having, by their faithfulness, docility, and respectful behavior, won his particular regard, received from him particular favors-among which was a lot of land, lying back on the slope of a mountain, where, by improving the ...
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Based on the complete 1884 edition, this volume includes the "Book of Life," a collection of letters and sketches about Truth's life written subsequent to the original 1850 publication of the Narrative, and "A Memorial Chapter," a ...
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