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Sojourner Truth :

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0393027392

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0393317080

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9780393027396

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9780393317084

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Sojourner Truth :

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[Book]

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a life, a symbol /

First Statement of Responsibility

Nell Irvin Painter.

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First edition.

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New York :

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W.W. Norton & Company,

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[1996]

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©1996

Specific Material Designation and Extent of Item

xii, 370 pages :

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illustrations ;

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24 cm

Text of Note

Includes bibliographical references (pages 293-343) and index.

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Isabella, Sojourner Truth, and American slavery -- Isabella, a slave -- Journey toward freedom -- Sanctification -- Plaintiff and witch -- New York perfectionism -- In the kingdom of Matthias -- Isabella's New York City -- Among the Millerites -- Northampton -- Douglass, Ruggles, and family -- The Narrative of Sojourner Truth -- Networks of antislavery feminism -- Akron, 1851 -- Vengeance and womanhood -- Spiritualism -- The "Libyan Sibyl" -- "Ar'n't I a woman?" -- Partisan and aristocrat -- Truth in photographs -- Presidents -- Washington's freedpeople -- Woman suffrage -- Kansas -- The end of a life -- The life of a symbol -- Coda: The triumph of a symbol.

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Sojourner Truth: ex-slave and fiery abolitionist, figure of imposing physique, riveting preacher and spellbinding singer who dazzled listeners with her wit and originality. Straight talking and unsentimental, Truth became a national symbol for strong black women - indeed, for all strong women. Like Harriet Tubman and Frederick Douglass, she is regarded as a radical of immense and enduring influence; yet unlike them, what is remembered of her consists more of myth than of historical fact. Now, in a masterful blend of scholarship and sympathetic understanding, eminent historian Nell Irvin Painter goes beyond the myths, words, and photographs to uncover the life of a complex woman who was born into slavery and died a legend. Inspired by religion, Truth transformed herself from a domestic servant named Isabella into an itinerant Pentecostal preacher; her words of empowerment have inspired black women and poor people the world over to this day. As an abolitionist and a feminist, Truth defied the stereotype of "the slave" as male and "the woman" as white - expounding a fact that still bears repeating: among blacks there are women; among women, there are blacks.

Truth, Sojourner,1799-1883.

Truth, Sojourner,-1883

Truth, Sojourner, 1797-1883

Truth, Sojourner,1799-1883

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Truth, Sojourner.

Abolitionists-- United States, Biography.

African American abolitionists, Biography.

Social reformers-- United States, Biography.

Women abolitionists-- United States, Biography.

Women social reformers-- United States, Biography.

Abolitionists-- United States, Biography

Abolitionists.

African American abolitionists-- Biography.

African American abolitionists.

Biografie

Social reformers-- Biography.

Social reformers.

Women abolitionists-- Biography.

Women abolitionists.

Women social reformers-- Biography.

Women social reformers.

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Painter, Nell Irvin

Frank and Virginia Williams Collection of Lincolniana (Mississippi State University. Libraries)

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20200822094559.0

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