Sojourner Truth : a life, a symbol /
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...
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| Language: | English |
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New York :
W.W. Norton and Company,
[1996]
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| Edition: | First edition. |
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| Online Access: | Table of contents |
Table of Contents:
- 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.