Sojourner Truth

Sojourner Truth

From Slave to Activist for Freedom

Butler, Mary G.
Format: Book
Edition: First edition.
Description: 112 pages : illustrations (some color), maps (some color) ; 25 cm.
Rising from the shackles of slavery, Sojourner Truth would become one of the most charismatic evangelical preachers of her time and would lead America to institute reforms in race relations and women's rights. A prophetic force. Truth would anticipate many of the social changes to come and would lead the way for the modern civil rights movement.
Series: Library of American lives and times.
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.
Subjects:
Truth, Sojourner, 1799-1883 -- Juvenile literature.
African American abolitionists -- Biography -- Juvenile literature.
African American women -- Biography -- Juvenile literature.
Abolitionists -- United States -- Biography -- Juvenile literature.
Social reformers -- United States -- Biography -- Juvenile literature.
Reformers -- Juvenile literature.
African Americans -- Biography -- Juvenile literature.
Women -- Biography -- Juvenile literature.
ISBN: 0823957365 (lib. bdg. : alk. paper)
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