| #2618419 in Books | NYU Press | 1995-03-01 | 1995-03-01 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 | 9.00 x.82 x6.00l,.98 | File type: PDF | 312 pages | ||1 of 1 people found the following review helpful.| The truth about Truth|By Suzie Siegel|This is a must-read for anyone interested in the real Sojourner Truth. With the help of his daughter, historian Carleton Mabee spent six years, visiting the places where Sojourner Truth lived and reading letters, newspaper accounts and other documents to cut through the myths that surround her.|2 of 6 people found the following review help|||"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 ye
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 discrimination she suffered as both a black and a wom...
You easily download any file type for your device.Sojourner Truth: Slave, Prophet, Legend | Carleton Mabee. I really enjoyed this book and have already told so many people about it!
