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Sojourner Truth's America / Margaret Washington.
Van Pelt Library E185.97.T8 W37 2009
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Washington, Margaret.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Truth, Sojourner, 1799-1883.
- Truth, Sojourner.
- Truth, Sojourner, 1799-1883--Political and social views.
- Political and social views.
- Truth, Sojourner, 1799-1883--Friends and associates.
- Friends and associates.
- African American abolitionists--Biography.
- African American abolitionists.
- African American women--Biography.
- African American women.
- Social reformers--United States--Biography.
- Social reformers.
- Race relations.
- History.
- Progressivism (United States politics).
- Social problems.
- United States.
- Social problems--United States--History--19th century.
- Progressivism (United States politics)--History--19th century.
- United States--Social conditions--19th century.
- Social conditions.
- United States--Race relations--History--19th century.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- Physical Description:
- xx, 478 pages, 18 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 25 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Urbana : University of Illinois Press, [2009]
- Contents:
- Part I Bell Hardenbergh and Slavery Times in the Hudson River Valley
- 1 African and Dutch Religious Heritage 9
- 2 "Home Is Like a Grave" 18
- Domesticity, Spirituality, and Patriarchy
- 3 "Better to Me Than a Man" 32
- Female Life, Labor, and Slavery in Rural New York
- Part II Isabella Van Wagenen: A Preaching Woman
- 4 Like Hagar and Her Children 51
- Long Walks to Freedom
- 5 "A Rushing Mighty Wind" 69
- Isabella's Baptism of the Spirit
- 6 Sanctification and Perfection 81
- Becoming a Religious Radical
- 7 "I Will Crush Them with the Truth" 98
- The Commune of Matthias
- Part III Sojourner Truth and the Antislavery Apostles
- 8 The Antislavery Vanguard, 1833-1843 129
- 9 "The Spirit Calls Me There" 141
- A Sojourner Is Chosen
- 10 A Holy City 156
- Sojourner Truth and the Northampton Community
- 11 The Cold Water Army, Olive Gilbert, and Sojourner's Narrative 175
- 12 The Bloodhound Bill and Intensified Activism 191
- 13 The New York Campaign 206
- 14 "God, You Drive" 221
- The Sojourner in Ohio
- 15 "I Go in for Agitatin'" 248
- 16 Truth Is Powerful 272
- 17 Proclaim Liberty throughout the Land 298
- 18 "Was Woman True?" 334
- Sojourner, Suffrage, and Civil Rights
- 19 "I Am on My Way to Kansas" 355
- Epilogue: Well Done, Good and Faithful Servant 377.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 381-454) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780252034190
- 0252034198
- OCLC:
- 246893171
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