Sojourner Truth
eBook - PDF

Sojourner Truth

A Biography

  1. 208 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF

Sojourner Truth

A Biography

About this book

This simple narrative of an extraordinary life explores the power of a disinterested commitment to right and truth. Sojourner Truth: A Biography traces this remarkable woman's life from her birth through adulthood and to her death in 1883. Drawing from public pronouncements, personal correspondence, and journalistic accounts of key historical actors, it follows her extraordinary career and sets the events of her life in the larger context of U.S. social and political history. The years during which Truth lived bore witness to tremendous social and religious ferment in the United States, including, of course, the Civil War. Truth was directly involved, indeed an influential figure, in many contentious issues of the period, from slavery and abolition to religious revivalism, women's rights, temperance, racial reconciliation, and more. Her story serves as a prism through which readers will better understand how these complex matters were adjudicated in 19th-century America. More than that, her life demonstrates what courage, character, and principle can accomplish against all odds.

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Information

Publisher
Greenwood
Year
2011
Print ISBN
9780313357282
eBook ISBN
9780313357299
Edition
1
Topic
History
Index
History

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title Page
  3. Copyright Page
  4. Table of Contents
  5. Acknowledgments
  6. Introduction
  7. Timeline: Events in the Life of Sojourner Truth
  8. Chapter 1. Way Down in Egypt’s Land
  9. Chapter 2. Through Many Dangers, Toils, and Snares
  10. Chapter 3. In the Valley of the Shadow
  11. Chapter 4. Go Ye into All the World
  12. Chapter 5. Blowing the Trumpet in Zion
  13. Chapter 6. A Change of Locus, But Not Focus
  14. Chapter 7. Though a Host Encamp against Me
  15. Chapter 8. So They Can Be a People among You
  16. Chapter 9. Same Song, New Verses
  17. Chapter 10. “Something Remains for Me to Do”
  18. Chapter 11. “Ain’t Got Time to Die”: Still Working in the Sunset
  19. Postscript: Looking Back across the Valley
  20. Selected Bibliography
  21. Index