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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...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Mabee, Carleton, 1914-2014 (Autor)
Otros Autores: Newhouse, Susan Mabee
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York, N.Y. : New York University Press, 1993
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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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
  • 20 Singer21 Talking with God; Notes; Bibliography of Works Cited; Acknowledgments; Index