An edition of Narrative of Sojourner Truth (1850)

Narrative of Sojourner Truth

a northern slave, emancipated from bodily servitude by the state of New York, in 1828

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An edition of Narrative of Sojourner Truth (1850)

Narrative of Sojourner Truth

a northern slave, emancipated from bodily servitude by the state of New York, in 1828

Electronic ed.
  • 9 Want to read
  • 2 Currently reading
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"A symbol of the strength of African-American women, and a champion of the rights of all women, Sojourner Truth was an illiterate former slave named Isabella who became a vastly powerful orator. Dictated to a neighbor and first published in 1850, Truth's celebrated story chronicles her life as a slave in New York State, her 1827 emancipation under state law, her religious experiences and her transformation into an extraordinary abolitionist, feminist, and impassioned speaker. Truth's magnetism brought her fame in her own time, and her narrative gives us a vivid picture of nineteenth-century life in the North, where blacks, enslaved or free, lived in relative isolation from one another." "Based on the most complete text, the 1884 edition of the Narrative, this volume contains the "Book of Life" - a collection of letters and biographical sketches about Truth, including the controversial transcription of her "Ar'n't I a Woman" speech and Harriet Beecher Stowe's 1863 essay "Sojourner Truth, the Libyan Sibyl" - as well as "A Memorial Chapter" about her death. In her Introduction, historian and Truth biographer Nell Irvin Painter looks at the woman behind the myth."--BOOK JACKET.

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Edition Notes

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Written for Sojourner Truth by Olive Gilbert, Leeds, Mass.

This electronic edition is part of the UNC-CH digitization project's database, Documenting the American South. It is a part of the collection North American slave narratives.

Text scanned (OCR) by Andrew Smith. Images scanned by Andrew Smith. Text encoded by Lee Ann Morawski and Natalia Smith.

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Transcribed from: Narrative of Sojourner Truth : a northern slave, emancipated from bodily servitude by the state of New York, in 1828 ; with a portrait. Boston : printed for the author, 1850. (Boston : J.B. Yerrinton and Son, Printers) 144 p. : port. ; 19 cm. Includes: [Extract from "Slavery as It Is."] Slavery a system of inherent cruelty by Theodore D. Weld.

Funding from the National Endowment for the Humanities supported the electronic publication of this title.

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Other Titles
North American slave narratives.

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OL53121314M
OCLC/WorldCat
45233111

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