| Narrative of Sojourner Truth Contributor(s): Truth, Sojourner (Author) |
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ISBN: 0593242645 ISBN-13: 9780593242643 Publisher: Modern Library OUR PRICE: $10.80 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: September 2025 This item may be ordered no more than 25 days prior to its street date of September 16, 2025 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Biography & Autobiography | Women - Biography & Autobiography | Personal Memoirs - Social Science | Discrimination & Race Relations |
| Dewey: B |
| Physical Information: 288 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: The autobiography of a Black woman who defied nineteenth-century conventions to become a preacher, popular speaker, abolitionist, and women's rights activist. Sojourner Truth was an incredible, remarkable, epoch-defying woman who escaped from slavery and successfully sued for her son's freedom, in addition to her career as a wildly successful orator and activist--a woman alive to the hypocrisies of her age, and unafraid to talk about them. Her autobiography, which she dictated, is an outstanding historical document. Truth's tale sheds a light on realities of slavery that are still rarely discussed: that she was a slave in upstate New York, not on a Southern plantation; that Dutch was her first language; that the circumstances of her slavery isolated her from a broader Black community; that her experience of religion was a racially integrated one, and became the means of her independence. Ultimately, The Narrative of Sojourner Truth is the story of a great American that reveals aspects of slavery and free Black life that are too often overlooked. |