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Sojourner Truth : from slave to activist for freedom / Mary G. Butler.

Van Pelt Library E185.97.T8 B88 2003
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Format:
Book
Author/Creator:
Butler, Mary G.
Contributor:
Rosengarten Family Fund.
Award Winning and Notable Children's and Young Adult Books (University of Pennsylvania)
Series:
Library of American lives and times
The library of American lives and times
Language:
English
Subjects (All):
African American abolitionists--Biography--Juvenile literature.
African American abolitionists.
African American abolitionists--Biography.
African American women--Biography--Juvenile literature.
African American women.
African American women--Biography.
Abolitionists--United States--Biography--Juvenile literature.
Abolitionists.
Social reformers--United States--Biography--Juvenile literature.
Social reformers.
Reformers.
African Americans--Biography.
Women--Biography.
Truth, Sojourner, 1799-1883--Juvenile literature.
Truth, Sojourner.
Truth, Sojourner, 1799-1883.
United States.
Genre:
Biographies.
Juvenile works.
Biography.
Physical Description:
112 pages : illustrations (some color), maps (some color) ; 25 cm.
Edition:
1st ed.
Place of Publication:
New York : PowerPlus Books, 2003.
Summary:
A profile of Sojourner Truth, slave and activist for freedom.
Contents:
Slavery in America
The slave Isabella
Living free
The sojourn begins
The Northampton Association
On the lecture circuit
The Battle Creek years
The legend grows
The nation divided
The last crusade.
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 107-108) and index.
Local Notes:
Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Rosengarten Family Fund.
ISBN:
0823957365
9780823957361
OCLC:
48177051
Publisher Number:
99990724671

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