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My name is Truth : the life of Sojourner Truth / by Ann Turner ; illustrated by James Ransome.

Kislak Center for Special Collections - Joanna Banks Collection E185.97.T8 T87 2015
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Format:
Book
Author/Creator:
Turner, Ann Warren.
Contributor:
Ransome, James, illustrator.
Joanna Banks Collection of African American Books (University of Pennsylvania)
Joanna Banks Collection of African American Children's Books (University of Pennsylvania)
Language:
English
Subjects (All):
Truth, Sojourner, 1799-1883--Juvenile literature.
Truth, Sojourner.
Truth, Sojourner, 1799-1883.
African American abolitionists--Biography--Juvenile literature.
African American abolitionists.
African American women--Biography--Juvenile literature.
African American women.
Abolitionists--United States--Biography--Juvenile literature.
Abolitionists.
Social reformers--United States--Biography--Juvenile literature.
Social reformers.
African American abolitionists--Biography.
African American women--Biography.
Abolitionists--United States--Biography.
Reformers--United States--Biography.
United States.
Genre:
Biographies.
Juvenile books.
Juvenile works.
Penn Provenance:
Banks, Joanna (donor) (Banks Collection copy)
Physical Description:
[36] unnumbered pages : color illustrations ; 29 cm.
Edition:
First edition.
Place of Publication:
New York, NY : Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, [2015]
Summary:
Learn about the life of Sojourner Truth.
Notes:
"The artists used watercolors to create the illustrations for this book."
"Typography by Megan Stitt."
"First Edition."
"The celebrated story of how former slave Isabella Baumfree transformed herself into the preacher and orator Sojourner Truth, one of the most inspiring and important figures of the abolitionist and women's rights movements. Written in the fiery and eloquent voice of Sojourner Truth herself"--Jacket.
Includes bibliographical references.
Local Notes:
Kislak Center Banks Collection copy presented to the Penn Libraries in 2018 by Joanna Banks.
Banks Collection copy: dustjacket retained.
ISBN:
9780060758981
0060758988
9780060758998
0060758996
OCLC:
905584400

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