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Sojourner Truth -- slave, prophet, legend /
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 na...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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New York, N.Y. :
New York University Press,
1993
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | 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. |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (1 online resource (xvi, 293 pages)) : illustrations |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 275-281) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780814763131 0814763138 |