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1 online resource (1 online resource (xvi, 293 pages)) : illustrations |
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 275-281) and index. |
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Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; 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 |
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20 Singer21 Talking with God; Notes; Bibliography of Works Cited; Acknowledgments; Index |
| 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 resou. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Truth, Sojourner, 1799-1883.
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Truth, Sojourner, 1799-1883 https://id.oclc.org/worldcat/entity/E39PBJymG3hCjkGhXCVdtYFVG3 |
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Social reformers -- United States -- Biography.
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Abolitionists -- United States -- Biography.
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African American abolitionists -- Biography.
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BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Historical. |
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Discrimination & Race Relations. |
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Minority Studies. |
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Abolitionists |
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African American abolitionists |
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Social reformers |
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United States https://id.oclc.org/worldcat/entity/E39PBJtxgQXMWqmjMjjwXRHgrq |
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collective biographies.
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Biographies
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Biographies.
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Newhouse, Susan Mabee.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: 0814755259 9780814755259 (DLC) 93009370 |
| ISBN |
9780814763131 (electronic bk.) |
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0814763138 (electronic bk.) |
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9780814755259 |
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0814755259 |
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0814754848 |
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9780814754849 |
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