Sojourner Truth

Truth, Sojourner - c.1797–1883, American abolitionist, a freed slave, originally called Isabella, b. Ulster co., N.Y. Convinced that she heard heavenly voices, she left (1843) domestic employment in New York City, adopted the name Sojourner Truth, and traveled throughout the North preaching emancipation and women's rights. A remarkable personality, she spoke with much effectiveness even Read More...

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Sojourner Truth as Orator: Wit, Story, and Song
by Suzanne Pullon Fitch, Roseann M. Mandziuk. 239 pgs.

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This work is an in-depth analysis of the full breadth of Sojourner Truth's public discourse that places it in its proper historical context and explores the use of humor and narratives as primary rhetorical strategies used by this illiterate ex-slave to create a powerful public persona. The book provides a comprehensive survey of the life of Sojourner Truth, and includes a unique and authoritative compilation of primary rhetorical documents, such as speeches, songs, and public letters.

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Contents

Series Foreword

Foreword

Acknowledgments

Part I: Critical Analysis

1: Introduction

2: From Slave to Freewoman

3: If We Can Laugh and Sing

4: Storyteller and Songstress

5: Conclusion: Folk Legend

Part II: Collected Speeches, Reports, Public Letters, and Songs

Speeches

Reports

Public Letters

Songs

Chronology of Major Speeches

Bibliography

Index

About the Authors

Great American Orators
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Glorying in Tribulation: The Lifework of Sojourner Truth
by Erlene Stetson, Linda David. 244 pgs.

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Sojourner Truth's great contributions to the nineteenth-century abolitionist debate and the struggle for woman suffrage are extraordinary in both form and content. Far from excluding her from the discourse of politics, her illiteracy provided a foundation for the development of her ideology. She also proved to be adept at turning her audiences' beliefs and laws into justifications for her own unpopular views. Truth drew on a uniquely modern and secular source of authorization and empowerment - what she called "the deeds of my body" - and she is rightfully remembered, not only for her thoughtful and systematic attacks on inequality, but also for recognizing the coming crisis in the relationship between feminist and abolitionist factions. To this day Truth's legacy challenges deep-rooted historical beliefs about cultural ownership, about the qualifications for citizenship and suffrage, and about the role played by African American women in claiming those rights. Even a brief review of the stories of Truth's life shows why it is not surprising that she is more commonly thought of as a legendary than a public figure. There is considerable evidence that Truth and those around her used and cultivated her heroic image. Contradictions in the various life stories of this nineteenth-century freedwoman are therefore no less relevant to her success and influence than the limited information we can prove by consulting records of her participation in the abolition and woman suffrage movements. Recognizing this, Erlene Stetson and Linda David have embraced the uncertainty surrounding Isabella Bomefree's history to go beyond biography. The authors have traced not only the life, but also the lifework ofSojourner Truth, providing the reader with a context for Truth's own manipulations of language and fact, as well as those of her supporters, opponents, and even "unbiased" reporters of contemporary events. Stetson and David

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Illustrations

Acknowledgments

One: Speaking of Shadows

Notes

Two: The Country of the Slave

Notes

Three: The Claims of Human Brotherhood

Notes

Four: Sojourners

Notes

Five: I Saw the Wheat Holding Up Its Head

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Six: Harvest Time for the Black Man, and Seed-Sowing Time for Woman: Nancy Works in the Cotton Field

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Appendices

Bibliography

Index
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Lift Every Voice: African American Oratory, 1787-1900 (Includes Sojourner Truth's oration in multiple chapters)
by Philip S. Foner, Robert James Branham. 926 pgs.

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Introduction

1: Speak to Those Who Are in Slavery

2: You Stand on the Level with the Greatest Kings on Earth

3: A Charge Delivered to the Brethren of the African Lodge

4: Pray God Give us the Strength to Bear Up Under All Our Troubles

5: Address to the People of Color

6: Eulogy for Washington

7: Universal Salvation

8: Abolition of the Slave Trade

9: A Thanksgiving Sermon

10: Mutual Interest, Mutual Benefit, and Mutual Relief

11: A Sermon Preached on the Funeral Occasion of Mary Henery

12: O! Africa

13: Valedictory Address

14: The Condition and Prospects of Haiti

15: Termination of Slavery

16: The Necessity of a General Union Among Us

17: Slavery and Colonization

19: It is Time For Us to be Up and Doing

20: Why Sit Ye Here and Die?

21: Let Us Alone

22: What If I Am a Woman?

23: Eulogy on William Wilberforce

24: The Slavery of Intermperance

25: Why a Convention is Necessary

26: Put on the Armour Of Righteousness

27: The Slave has a Friend in Heaven, Though He May Have None Here

28: On the Improvement of the Mind

29: Predudice Against the Colored Man

31: We Meet the Monster Prejudice Every Where

32: Slavery Presses Down Upon the Free People of Color

33: Let Us Do Justic to an Unfortunate People

34: The Rights of Colored Citizens in Traveling

35: We Must Assert Our Rightful Claims and Plead Our Own Cause

36: An Address to the Slaves of the United States of America

37: For the Dissolution of the Union

38: I am Free from American Slavery

39: Under the Stars and Stripes

40: I Have No Constitution, and No Country

42: A Plea for the Oppressed

43: I Won't Obey the Fugitive Slave Law

44: Ar'nt I a Woman?

45: Orators and Oratory

46: What, to the Slave, Is The Fourth of July?

47: Snakes and Geese

48: I Set Out to Escape from Slavery

49: There is no Full Enjoyment of Freedom for Anyone

50: The Triumph of Equal School Rights in Boston

52: The Negro Race, Self-Government, and the Haitian Revolution

53: Liberty for Slaves

54: If There is No Struggle There is No Progress

55: I Will Sink Or Swim with My Race

56: Break Every Yoke and Let the Oppressed Go Free

57: Should Colored Men be Subject to the Penalties of the Fugitive

58: Why is Slavery Still Rampant

60: I Do Not Believe in that Antislavery of Abraham Lincoln

61: A Plea for Free Speech

62: Let Us Take Up the Sword

63: What if the Slaves are Emancipated?

64: We Ask for Our Rights

65: Lincoln's Colonization Proposal is Anti-Christian

66: The Negroes in the United States of America

67: Freedom's Joyful Day

68: Address to the Youth

69: The Moral and Social Aspect of Africa

70: The Good Time is at Hand

71: The Position and Duties Of The Colored People

72: A Tribute to a Fallen Black Soldier

73: The Mission of the War

74: Give Us Equal Pay and We Will Go to War

76: Let the Monster Perish

77: Colored Men Standing in the Way of Their Own Race

79: An Appeal for Aid to the Freedmen

80: Deliver Us From Such a Moses

81: We Are All Bound Up Together

82: These are Revolutionary Times

83: Equal Rights for All: Three Speeches

84: To My White Fellow Citizens

85: Break Up the Plantation System

86: Justice Should Recognize No Color

87: I Claim the Rights of a Man

88: Finish the Good Work of Uniting Colored and White Working Men

89: Composite Nation

90: Then I Began To Live

91: Abolish Separate Schools

92: The Ku Klux of the North

93: The Right of Women to Vote

94: A Plea in Behalf of the Cuban Revolution

95: The Civil Rights Bill

96: Equality Before the Law

97: The Civil Rights Bill

98: The Great Problem to Be Solved

99: Oration in Memory of Abraham Lincoln

100: The Sioux's Revenge

101: How Long? How Long, O Heaven?

102: Socialism: The Remedy for the Evils of Society

104: The Destined Superiority of the Negro

105: Migration is the Only Remedy for Our Wrongs

106: Race Unity

108: These Evils Call Loudly for Redress

109: Negro Education - Its Help and Hindrances

110: The Stone Cut Out of the Mountain

111: Reasons for a New Political Party

112: The Present Relations of Labor and Capital

113: How Shall We Make the Women of Our Race Stronger?

114: Introduction of Master Workman Powderly

115: I Am An Anarchist

116: Mob Violence

118: How Shall We Get Our Rights?

119: Importance of Race Pride

120: Woman Suffrage

121: I Denounce the So-Called Emancipation as a Stupendous Fraud

122: Organized Resistence is Our Best Remedy

123: National Perils

124: It Is Time to Call a Halt

125: Harvard Class Day Oration

126: Education and the Problem

128: The Intellectual Progress of the Colored Women of the United States Since the Emancipation Proclamation

129: Women's Cause is One and Universal

130: Justice or Emigration Should be Our Watchword

131: The Ethics Of The Hawaiian Question

132: Address to the First National Conference of Colored Women

133: Atlanta Exposition Address

134: A Plea Against The Disfranchisement Of the Negro

137: The Awakening Of The Afro-American Woman

138: The Awakening of the Afro-American Woman

139: The Attitude of the American Mind Toward the Negro Intellect

140: The Functions of the Negro Scholar

141: Remarks To President Mckinley

142: We Must Have A Cleaner "Social Morality"

143: The Cancer of Race Prejudice

144: The Negro Will Never Acquiesce as Long as He Lives

145: The Willmington Massacre

146: The Fallacy of Industrial Education as the Solution Of the Race Problem

147: Some Facts About Southern Lynchings

148: The Burden of the Educated Colored Woman

149: The State of the Country from a Black Man's Point of View

150: My Mother as I Recall Her

151: To the Nations of the World

Index of Speeches by Author

Subject Index

About the Editors
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Commemorating Sojourner Truth: Negotiating the Politics of Race and Gender in the Spaces of Public Memory, in Western Journal of Communication
by Roseann M. Mandziuk. 21 pgs.

Journal Article
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Demanding a Voice among the Pettifoggers: Sojourner Truth as Legal Actor, in MELUS
by Christina Accomando. 26 pgs.

Journal Article
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Sojourner Truth: Itinerant Truth-Teller, in World and I
by Anne Wortham. 22 pgs.

Magazine Article
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Sentimental Materialism: Gender, Commodity Culture, and Nineteenth-Century American Literature (Chap. 4 "Domesticating 'Blackness': Harriet Jacobs, Sojourner Truth, and the Decommodification of the Black Female Body")
by Lori Merish. 390 pgs.

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In Sentimental Materialism Lori Merish considers the intricate relationship between consumption and womanhood in the late eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Taking as her starting point a diversity of cultural art facts -- from domestic fiction and philosophical treatises to advice literature and cigars -- Merish explores the symbolic functions they served and finds that consumption evolved into a form of personal expressiveness that indicated not only a woman's wealth and taste but also her race, class, morality, and civic values. The discursive production of this new subjectivity -- the feminine consumer -- was remarkably influential, helping to shape American capitalism, culture, and nation building.
The phenomenon of female consumption was capitalism's complement to male production: It created what Merish calls the "Other Protestant Ethic", a feminine and sentimental counter-part to Max Weber's ethic of hard work, economic rationality, and self-control. In addition, driven by the culture's effort to,civilize the "cannibalistic" practices of ethnic, class, and national otherness, appropriate female consumerism, marked by taste and refinement, identified certain women and their families as proper citizens of the United States. The public nature of consumption, however, had curiously conflicting effects: While the achievement of cultured material circumstances facilitated women's civic agency, it also reinforced stereotypes of domestic womanhood.
Merish's inquiry into middle-class consumption and accompanying ideals of womanhood will appeal to readers in a variety of disciplines, including American studies, cultural studies, feminist theory, and cultural history.

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New Americanists

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Introduction:: The Forms of Cultured Feeling

1: Embodying Gender: Sentimental Materialism in the New Republic

2: Gender, Domesticity, and Consumption in the 1830s: Caroline Kirkland, Catharine Sedgwick, and the Feminization of American Consumerism

4: Domesticating "Blackness": Harriet Jacobs, Sojourner Truth, and the Decommodification of the Black Female Body

5: Fashioning a Free Self: Consumption, Politics, and Power in the Writings of Elizabeth Keckley and Frances Harper

6: Not "Just a Cigar": Commodity Culture and the Construction of Imperial Manhood

Conclusion

Notes

Works Cited

Index
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Black Women in Nineteenth-Century American Life: Their Words, Their Thoughts, Their Feelings ("Sojourner Truth" begins on p. 234)
by Bert James Loewenberg, Ruth Bogin. 355 pgs.

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Preface

Introduction:: Selves and Society

I: "To Knit Together the Broken Ties of Family Kinship"

II: "An Arrow from the Bent Bow of the Gospel"

III: "Let Us Make a Mighty Effort and Arise"

IV: "To Get an Education and to Teach My People"

Bibliography:: Works Included in Black Women in Nineteenth-Century American Life

Index
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Homespun Heroines and Other Women of Distinction ("Isabella-Sojourner Truth" begins on p. 13)
by Hallie Q. Brown. 248 pgs.

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Hallie Q. Brown--teacher, international lecturer, social activist, and herself a "woman of distinction"--recreates, along with twenty-eight contributors , the lives of sixty remarkable Afro-American women, all born in the United States and Canada between the mid 1740s and the end of the nineteenth century. First published in 1926, Homespun Heroines tells the tales of slaves and social workers, artists and activists, cake makers and homemakers. In so doing, it offers unusual insight into female networks, patterns of voluntary association, work, religion, family life, and black women's culture of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.

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The Schomburg Library of Nineteenth-Century Black Women Writers

Homespun Heroines and Other Women of Distinction

Publisher's Note

Foreword in Her Own Write

A Note from the Schomburg Center

Introduction

Homespun Heroines and Other Women of Distinction

Foreword

Introduction

Ode to Woman

Martha Payne

Catherine Ferguson 1749 (?)—1854 Founder of the First Sunday School Movement in New York City

Sara Allen 1764—1849

Isabella—sojourner Truth 1777 (?)—1883

Elizabeth N. Smith

Sarah Harris Fayerweather: Born, Canterbury, Conn., 1802 Died, Kingston, R. I., 1868

Dinah Cox 1804-1909

Sarah Elizabeth Tanner 1804—1914

Charlotta Gordon Machenry Pyles 1806-1880

Mrs. Jane Roberts 1809—(?)

Aunt Mac a Life in Three Chapters

Harriet Tubman Harriet—the Moses 1821—march 10, 1913

Grandmother Gross 1817—(?)

Frances Jane Brown: April 15, 1819—april 16, 1914

Eliza Anna Scroggins 1820-1912

Lucretia Harper Simpson 1820-(?)

Sarah Gould Lee 1821-1905

Mrs. Catherine A. Delany 1822-1894

Mrs. Mary Ann Shadd Cary 1823-1893 the Foremost Colored Canadian Pioneer in 1850

Frances Ellen Watkins Harper 1825-1900

Caroline Sherman Andrews-Hill 1829-1914

Mary Catherine Windsor 1830-1914

Sarah J. S. (tompkins) Garnet: Born 1831, in Brooklyn, N. Y. Died October, 1911 in Brooklyn, N. Y.

Mrs. S. J. S. Garnett an Appreciation

Eliza Ann Gardner 1831-1922

Fannie Jackson Coppin 1835-1912 Teacher and Moulder of Character

Anne E. Baltimore: August 6, 1836—januuary 11, 1922

Amanda Smith 1837-1915

Susan Paul Vashon: September 19, 1838—november 27, 1912

Georgiana Frances Putnam: Born 1839, Salem, Massachusetts Died 1914, Worcester, Massachusetts

Anna Elizabeth Hudlun 1840-1914

Miss Mary J. Patterson 1840-1894

Madam Elizabeth Keckley 1840-1900

Josephine St. Pierre Ruffin 1842-1924

Mrs. Margaret E. Reid 1846-1923

Matilda J. Dunbar 1848—?

Dr. Susan S. (mckinney) Steward: Born, Brooklyn, N. Y., 1848 Died, Wilberforce, Ohio, 1918

Know Ye Not That a Great Woman Hath Fallen This Day in Israel?

Henrietta Cordelia Ray: Born in New York City—1849 Died in Brooklyn—1916

Mrs. Lucy Smith Thurman 1849-1918

Josephine Silone Yates 1862-1912

Maria Louise Baldwin 1856-1922

Mary Ella Mossell 1853-1886

Agnes Jones Adams 1858-1923

Susie I. Lankford Shorter: January 4, 1859—february 27, 1912

Victoria Earle Matthews 1861-1898

Mary Burnett Talbert 1862-1923

Madam C. J. Walker 1868-1925

Susan Elizabeth Frazier 1864-1924

Margaret Murray Washington 1865-1925

Madam Emma Azalia Hackley 1867-1922

Mrs. Laura A. Brown 1874-1924

California Colored Women Trail Blazers

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With Pen and Voice: A Critical Anthology of Nineteenth-Century African-American Women (Chap. 2 " Sojourner Truth (c. 1797-1883)")
by Shirley Wilson Logan. 172 pgs.

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INTRODUCTION:: MOUNTING THE PLATFORM

1: Maria W. Stewart (1803-1879)

2: Sojourner Truth (c. 1797-1883)

3: Frances Ellen Watkins Harper (1825-1911)

4: Anna Julia Haywood Cooper (1858-1964)

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6: Fannie Barrier Williams (1855-1944)

7: Victoria Earle Matthews (1861-1907)

References Index

REFERENCES

Index
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African-American Orators: A Bio-critical Sourcebook ("Sojourner Truth" begins on p. 332)
by Richard W. Leeman. 452 pgs.

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Long-needed sourcebook assessing the unique styles and themes of notable African-American orators.

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Preface

Introduction

Bibliography

Mary Mcleod Bethune: (1875-1955), Educator, College President

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William Wells Brown: (c. 1814-1884) Abolitionist, Author

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Shirley Anita St. Hill Chisholm: (1924- ), U.S. Congresswoman, U.S. Presidential Candidate, Educator

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Leroy Eldridge Cleaver: (1935- ), Civil Rights Activist, Reformer

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Anna Julia Cooper: (1858-1964), Educator, Feminist

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Alexander Crummell: (1819-1898), Minister

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Angela Yvonne Davis: (1944- ), Activist, Professor

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Father Divine: (c. 1879-1965), Religious Leader

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Frederick Douglass: (1818-1895), Abolitionist, Reformer

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William Edward Burghardt Du Bois: (1868-1963), Professor, Editor, Civil Rights Leader

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Marian Wright Edelman: (1939- ), Lawyer, Children's Advocate

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Louis Abdul Farrakhan: (1933- ), Religious Leader

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Lenora Fulani: (1950- ), Psychologist, Political Activist, U.S. Presidential Candidate

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Henry Highland Garnet: (1815-1882), Minister, Abolitionist, U.S. Ambassador

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Marcus Moziah Garvey: (1887-1940), Black Nationalist

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Francis James Grimke: (1850-1937), Minister

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Frances Ellen Watkins Harper: (1825-1911), Poet, Author, Abolitionist, Lecturer, Reform Leader

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Benjamin Lawson Hooks: (1925- ), Lawyer, Minister, Naacp Director

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Jesse Louis Jackson: (1941- ), Minister, Civil Rights Activist, U.S. Presidential Candidate

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Vernon Johns: (1892-1965), Minister

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Barbara Charline Jordan: (1936-1996), Lawyer, U.S. Representative, Professor

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Martin Luther King, Jr.: (1929-1968), Minister, Civil Rights Activist

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John Robert Lewis: (1940- ), Minister, Civil Rights Activist, U.S. Representative

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Louis E. Lomax: (1922-1970), Journalist, Author, Professor

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Thurgood Marshall: (1908-1993), Lawyer, Supreme Court Justice

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Robert Parris Moses: (1935- ), Civil Rights Activist, Social Activist, Professor

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Eleanor Holmes Norton: (1937- Lawyer, Professor, U.S. Representative

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Adam Clayton Powell, Jr.: (1908-1972), Minister, U.S. Representative

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Colin Luther Powell: (1937- ) Four-Star General

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Asa Philip Randolph: (1889-1979), Labor Leader, Civil Rights Activist

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Charles Lenox Remond: (1810-1873), Abolitionist, Reform Activist

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Maria W. Miller Stewart: (1803-1879), Essayist, Educator

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Mary Eliza Church Terrell: (1863-1954), Educator, Writer, Lecturer

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Sojourner Truth: (c. 1797-1883), Lecturer, Abolitionist, Women's Rights Speaker

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Booker T. Washington: (1856-1915), Educator, Community Leader

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Alyce Faye Wattleton: (1943- ), Nurse, Public Health Official, Planned Parenthood President

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Ida Bell Wells-Barnett: (1862-1931), Journalist, Civil Rights Activist, Antilynching Crusader

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William Whipper (c. 1804-1876), Businessman, Abolitionist, Reform Activist

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Lawrence Douglas Wilder: (1931- ), Lawyer, Politician, Governor

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Fannie Barrier Williams: (1855-1944), Writer, Lecturer, Community Activist

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Walter Edward Williams: (1936- ), Professor, Editorialist

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Malcolm X: (1925-1965), Religious Leader, Civil Rights Activist

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Andrew Jackson Young: (1932- ), Minister, Civil Rights Activist, U.S. Representative, U.S. Ambassador, Mayor

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About the Contributors
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African American Authors, 1745-1945: Bio-bibliographical Critical Sourcebook ("Sojourner Truth" begins on p. 418)
by Emmanuel S. Nelson. 528 pgs.

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There has been a dramatic resurgence of interest in early African American writing. The works of dozens of 18th and early 20th century black writers have been recovered and reprinted; there has been a significant revival of interest in the Harlem Renaissance; and several major assessments of 18th and 19th century African American literature have recently been published. This reference book provides alphabetically arranged entries for 78 African American writers active between 1745 and 1945. Each entry is written by an expert contributor and includes a biography, a discussion of major works and themes, a summary of the critical response to the author, and primary and secondary bibliographies. A selected, general bibliography concludes the volume.

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Preface

Elizabeth Laura Adams (1909-?)

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Octavia Victoria Rogers Albert (1853-1890 ?)

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James Madison Bell (1826-1902)

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Gwendolyn Bennett (1902-1981)

Henry Walton Bibb (1815-1854)

Marita Bonner (1898-1971)

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Arna Bontemps (1902-1973)

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William Stanley Braithwaite (1878-1962)

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Claude Brown (1937- )

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Sterling A. Brown (1901-1989)

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William Wells Brown (1814-1884)

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Charles Waddell Chesnutt (1858-1932)

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Anna Julia Cooper (1858?-1964)

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Countee Cullen (1903-1946)

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Lucy A. Delaney (c. 1828-19??)

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Martin Robinson Delany (1812-1885)

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Frederick Douglass (1818-1895)

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W.E.B. Du Bois (1868-1963)

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Paul Laurence Dunbar (1872-1906)

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Alice Moore Dunbar- Nelson (1875-1935)

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Olaudah Equiano (1745-1797)

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Jessie Redmon Fauset (1882-1961)

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Rudolph Fisher (1897-1934)

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Sarah Lee Brown Fleming (1876-1963)

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Marcus Mosiah Garvey Jr. (1887-1940)

Edythe Mae Gordon (c. 1898-?)

Sutton E. Griggs (1872-1933)

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Angelina Weld Grimké (1880-1958)

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Charlotte Lottie Forten Grimé (1837-1914)

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Briton Hammon (Late 1720s-?)

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Jupitor Hammon (1711-1806?)

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Frances Ellen Watkins Harper (1825-1911)

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Juanita Harrison (1891-?)

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George Wylie Henderson (1904-1965)

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Pauline Elizabeth Hopkins (1859-1930)

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George Moses Horton (1797-1883?)

James H. W. Howard (1856-?)

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Langston Hughes (1902-1967)

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Zora Neale Hurston (1891-1960)

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Rebecca Cox Jackson (1795-1871)

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Harriet Ann Jacobs (c. 1813-1897)

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Amelia E. Johnson (1858-1922)

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Georgia Douglas Johnson (18807-1966)

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Helene Johnson (1906-1995)

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James Weldon Johnson (1871-1938)

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Elizabeth Keckley (1818/1819-1907)

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Emma Dunham Kelley-Hawkins (?-?)

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Nella Larsen (1891-1964)

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Jarena Lee (1783-?)

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Alain Locke (1886-1954)

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John Marrant (1755-1791)

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Claude McKay (1889-1948)

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Richard Bruce Nugent (1906-1987)

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Eliza C. Potter (1820-?)

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Mary Prince (c. 1788-?)

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Nancy Prince (1799-c. 1856)

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Henrietta Cordelia Ray (c.1849-1916)

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Mary Seacole (1805-1881)

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Maria W. Stewart (1803-1879)

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Mary Church Terrell (1863-1954)

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Lucy Terry (c. 1730-1821)

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Wallace Thurman (1902-1934)

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Katherine Davis Chapman Tillman (1870-?)

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Melvin Beaunorus Tolson (1898-1966)

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Eugene (Jean) Pinchback Toomer (1894-1967)

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Sojourner Truth (1797, 1800?-1883)

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David Walker (1785-1830)

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Eric Walrond (1898-1966)

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Booker T. Washington (1856-1915)

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Frank Webb (?-?)

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Ida B. Wells-Barnett (1862-1931)

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Phillis Wheatley (1754-1784)

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Walter White (1893-1955)

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James Monroe Whitfield (1822-1871)

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Albery Allson Whitman (1851-1901)

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Harriet E. Wilson (1827?-1863?)

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Richard Wright (1908-1960)

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Zara Wright (?-?)

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Selected Bibliography

Index

About the Editor and Contributors
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The Risks of Repeating Ourselves: Reading Feminist/Womanist Figures of Jesus, in Cross Currents
by Karen Trimble Alliaume. 20 pgs.

Magazine Article
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Man Cannot Speak for Her, Vol. 1: A Critical Study of Early Feminist Rhetoric ("Sojourner Truth" begins on p. 19)
by Karlyn Kohrs Campbell. 216 pgs.

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"The right to cast a ballot from a feminine hand occupied the attention and efforts of hundreds of women for more than a century in the U.S. In these two volumes Campbell (University of Minnesota) provides a basic understanding of two processes: the development of the rhetoric used by the women who argued for equal rights, and the constraints and sanctions applied to those women who affronted the norms of society's expectation that true women were seldom seen and never spoke in public. The first volume lays the foundation for the analysis of rhetorical style and content by its fine introduction and by a succession of chapters organized chronologically, with biographical sketches and excerpts from speeches. It includes a chapter specifically addressed to issues of sex, race, and class faced by African American women. Volume 2 is not a continuation of the first, but contains the texts on which the first volume is based. The biographical and historical sections are gracefully written and well organized, but the greatest value of the set lies in the actual words of the feminist leaders and Campbell's skillfull analyses. Every women's studies program must have this available. Upper-division undergraduates and above." Choice

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Acknowledgments

1: Introduction

Notes

2: The Struggle for the Right to Speak

Notes

3: Responding to Opposition Based on Theology: Proposing a Single Moral Standard

Notes

4: Woman's Rights Conventions: Ideological Crucibles

Conclusion

5: A Movement in Transition: The Debate of 1860

Notes

6: Adapting to Males: Addressing State Legislators

Notes

7: Seeking a Judicial Route to Suffrage: Anthony in Behalf of Herself

Notes

8: Social Feminism: Frances Willard, Feminine Feminist""

Conclusion

Notes

9: The Humanistic Underpinnings of Feminism: The Solitude of Self""

Notes

10: The Heavy Burdens of Afro-American Women: Sex, Race, and Class

Notes

11: The Coming of Woman Suffrage: The Orator, the Organizer, and the Agitator

Notes

12: After Woman Suffrage

Conclusion

Afterword

Notes

References

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