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Sojourner Truth : a life, a symbol / Nell Irvin Painter.
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Painter, Nell Irvin, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Truth, Sojourner, 1799-1883.
- Truth, Sojourner.
- Truth, Sojourner, -1883.
- African American abolitionists--Biography.
- African American abolitionists.
- Abolitionists--United States--Biography.
- Abolitionists.
- Women abolitionists.
- United States.
- Women abolitionists--United States--Biography.
- Social reformers--United States--Biography.
- Social reformers.
- Women social reformers--United States--Biography.
- Women social reformers.
- Local Subjects:
- Truth, Sojourner, -1883.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- Physical Description:
- xii, 370 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : W.W. Norton & Company, [1996]
- Summary:
- 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.
- 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.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 293-343) and index.
- Black Caucus of the American Library Association Literary Awards - Nonfiction , Winner, 1997
- ISBN:
- 0393027392
- 9780393027396
- 0393317080
- 9780393317084
- OCLC:
- 33440089
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