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9%OFFCarleton Mabee - Sojourner Truth: Slave, Prophet, Legend - 9780814755259 - V9780814755259
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Sojourner Truth: Slave, Prophet, Legend

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Description for Sojourner Truth: Slave, Prophet, Legend Paperback. Num Pages: 312 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; HBG; HBLL; HBTB; HBTS; JFSC; JFSL3; JHBD. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 22. Weight in Grams: 454.

Goes beyond the myths and legends to reveal new insights into the real life of Sojourner Truth
Many Americans have long since forgotten that there ever was slavery along the Hudson River. Yet Sojourner Truth was born a slave near the Hudson River in Ulster County, New York, in the late 1700s. Called merely Isabella as a slave, once freed she adopted the name of Sojourner Truth and became a national figure in the struggle for the emancipation of both Blacks and women in Civil War America.
Despite the dual discrimination she suffered as a Black woman, Truth ... Read more

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Product Details

Format
Paperback
Publication date
1995
Publisher
New York University Press United States
Number of pages
312
Condition
New
Number of Pages
312
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780814755259
SKU
V9780814755259
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Usually ships in 7 to 11 working days
Ref
99-50

About Carleton Mabee
Carleton Mabee is the author of many books, including the Pulitzer-Prize winning American Leonardo: A Life of Samuel F. B. Morse; Black Education in New York State, which won the John Ben Snow Prize; and Black Freedom: The Nonviolent Abolitionists from 1830 through the Civil War, which won the Anisfield-Wolf Award.

Reviews for Sojourner Truth: Slave, Prophet, Legend
I am particulary impressed with the extremely high quality of the primary research and with the presentation of specific historical evidence on areas of Truth's life. . . . that have been mythologized by other writers. The book is obviously the result of years of careful and laborious sifting through antislavery newspapers and memoirs of Truth's activist associates. . . ... Read more

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