Sojourner Truth : Slave, Prophet, Legend / Carleton Mabee.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Mabee, Carleton, Author.

Contributor:

Newhouse, Susan Mabee.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Truth, Sojourner, 1799-1883.

Truth, Sojourner.

Electronic books.

Social reformers--United States--Biography.

Social reformers.

Abolitionists--United States--Biography.

Abolitionists.

African American abolitionists--Biography.

African American abolitionists.

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (330 p.)

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : New York University Press, [1993]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Many Americans have long since forgotten that there ever was slavery along the Hudson River. Yet Sojourner Truth was born a slave near the Hudson River in Ulster County, New York, in the late 1700s. Called merely Isabella as a slave, once freed she adopted the name of Sojourner Truth and became a national figure in the struggle for the emancipation of both blacks and women in Civil War America. Despite the discrimination she suffered as both a black and a woman, Truth significantly shaped both her own life and the struggle for human rights in America. Through her fierce intelligence, her resourcefulness, and her eloquence, she became widely acknowledged as a remarkable figure during her life, and she has become one of the most heavily mythologized figures in American history. While some of the myths about Truth have served positive functions, they have also contributed to distortions about American history, specifically about the history of blacks and women. In this landmark work, the product of years of primary research, Pulizter-Prize winning biographer Carleton Mabee has unearthed the best available sources about this remarkable woman to reconstruct her life as directly as the most original and reliable available sources permit. Included here are new insights on why she never learned to read, on the authenticity of the famous "ations attributed to her (such as Ar'n't I a woman?), her relationship to President Lincoln, her role in the abolitionist movement, her crusade to move freed slaves from the South to the North, and her life as a singer, orator, feminist and woman of faith. This is an engaging, historically precise biography that reassesses the place of Sojourner Truth-slave, prophet, legend--in American history.Sojourner Truth is one of the most famous and most mythologized figures in American history. Pulitzer-Prize-winning biographer Carleton Mabee unearths heretofore-neglected sources and offers valuable new insights into the life of a woman who, against all odds, became a central figure in the struggle for the emancipation of slaves and women in Civil War America.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Illustrations

Preface

Chronology of Truth's Life

1. Growing Up a Slave

2. Slave Mother

3. Monstrous Kingdom

4. New Missions

5. Why Did She Never Learn to Read?

6. Her Famous Akron Speech

7. Confronting Douglass

8. Northampton to Battle Creek

9. Underground Railroader?

10. Romanticized: Libyan Sibyl

11. With President Lincoln and the Freedmen

12. Riding Washington's Horse Cars

13. Moving Freed Slaves to the North

14. Western Land

15. Women's Rights

16. Goose Wings and High Heels

17. Drink and Smoke

18. Friend Titus

19. Friends and Supporters

20. Singer

21. Talking with God

Notes

Bibliography of Works Cited

Acknowledgments

Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 275-281) and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 23. Jun 2020)

ISBN:

0-8147-6313-8

OCLC:

859685938