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