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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


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    Sojourner Truth as Orator: Wit, Story, and Song » Read Now

    by Suzanne Pullon Fitch, Roseann M. Mandziuk. 239 pgs.

    Collections: History, Entire Library
    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...
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    Glorying in Tribulation: The Lifework of Sojourner Truth » Read Now

    by Erlene Stetson, Linda David. 244 pgs.

    Collections: History, Entire Library
    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...
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    Lift Every Voice: African American Oratory, 1787-1900 (Includes Sojourner Truth's oration in multiple chapters) » Read Now

    by Philip S. Foner, Robert James Branham. 926 pgs.

    Collections: History, Entire Library
    ...Arnt I a Woman? 226 by Sojourner Truth, May 29, 1851 45. Orators...Snakes and Geese 269 by Sojourner Truth, September 7, 1853 48...Three Speeches 463 by Sojourner Truth...
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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") » Read Now

    by Lori Merish. 390 pgs.

    Collections: Literature, Entire Library
    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...
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    Black Women in Nineteenth-Century American Life: Their Words, Their Thoughts, Their Feelings ("Sojourner Truth" begins on p. 234) » Read Now

    by Bert James Loewenberg, Ruth Bogin. 355 pgs.

    Collections: History, Entire Library
    ...Remond 222 Sojourner Truth 234 Frances...name. The striking oratory of Sojourner Truth, the feats of Harriet Tubman...women -- Harriet Tubman and Sojourner Truth are...
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    Homespun Heroines and Other Women of Distinction ("Isabella-Sojourner Truth" begins on p. 13) » Read Now

    by Hallie Q. Brown. 248 pgs.

    Collections: History, Entire Library
    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...
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    With Pen and Voice: A Critical Anthology of Nineteenth-Century African-American Women (Chap. 2 " Sojourner Truth (c. 1797-1883)") » Read Now

    by Shirley Wilson Logan. 172 pgs.

    Collections: Literature, Entire Library
    ...1832 11 2. SOJOURNER TRUTH c. 1797-1883 17...1880-1889 1890-1899 Sojourner Truth, 49 blacks re Frances Ellen...laugh us to scorn forever! 2 SOJOURNER TRUTH c. 1797-1883 My...
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    African-American Orators: A Bio-critical Sourcebook ("Sojourner Truth" begins on p. 332) » Read Now

    by Richard W. Leeman. 452 pgs.

    Collections: History, Entire Library
    Long-needed sourcebook assessing the unique styles and themes of notable African-American orators.
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    African American Authors, 1745-1945: Bio-bibliographical Critical Sourcebook ("Sojourner Truth" begins on p. 418) » Read Now

    by Emmanuel S. Nelson. 528 pgs.

    Collections: Literature, Entire Library
    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...
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    The Risks of Repeating Ourselves: Reading Feminist/Womanist Figures of Jesus, in Cross Currents » Read Now

    by Karen Trimble Alliaume. 20 pgs.

    ...African-American preacher and former slave Sojourner Truth. This chain of figures attempts...ambiguous flesh by invoking Sojourner Truth as its "representative." Jesus...be...
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    Man Cannot Speak for Her, Vol. 1: A Critical Study of Early Feminist Rhetoric ("Sojourner Truth" begins on p. 19) » Read Now

    by Karlyn Kohrs Campbell. 216 pgs.

    Collections: History, Entire Library
    "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...

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