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Sojourner Truth : ain't I a woman? / by Patricia C. McKissack and Fredrick McKissack.
Kislak Center for Special Collections - Joanna Banks Collection E185.97.T8 M38 1992
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- McKissack, Pat, 1944-2017.
- McKissack, Fredrick, author.
- Series:
- Scholastic biography.
- Scholastic biography
- 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.
- Abolitionists--United States--Biography--Juvenile literature.
- Abolitionists.
- Social reformers--United States--Biography--Juvenile literature.
- Social reformers.
- Reformers.
- African Americans--Biography.
- Women--Biography.
- United States.
- Truth, Sojourner, d. 1883--Juvenile literature.
- Afro-Americans--Biography--Juvenile literature.
- Local Subjects:
- Truth, Sojourner, d. 1883--Juvenile literature.
- Afro-Americans--Biography--Juvenile literature.
- Abolitionists--United States--Biography--Juvenile literature.
- Social reformers--United States--Biography--Juvenile literature.
- Genre:
- Children's nonfiction.
- Biographies.
- Juvenile works.
- Penn Provenance:
- Banks, Joanna (donor) (Banks Collection copy)
- Physical Description:
- [4], 186, [2] pages : illustrations, portraits ; 22 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Scholastic, ©1992.
- Summary:
- A biography of the former slave who became well-known as an abolitionist and advocate of women's rights.
- Contents:
- Part I. Hardenbergh's Belle; Dumont's Belle; Free Belle!; The Kingdom; Gone forever
- Part II. A New direction; Ain't I a woman?; Keep 'Em scratchin'; The Book of life
- The Last cause.
- Notes:
- Contains "More about the People Sojourner Truth Knew" (pages 165-178)
- Publisher's advertisements: [1] page at end.
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 179-180) and index.
- Boston-Globe-Horn Book Award, 1993
- Coretta Scott King Book Awards - Author, Honor, 1993
- Local Notes:
- Kislak Center Banks Collection copy presented to the Penn Libraries in 2018 by Joanna Banks.
- ISBN:
- 0590446908
- 9780590446907
- 0590446916 (pbk.) :
- 9780590446914
- 0785725156
- 9780785725152
- OCLC:
- 25049926
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