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This fascinating biography tells the story of nineteenth-century America through the life of one of its most magnetic and influential characters: Sojourner Truth. In an in-depth account of this amazing activist, Margaret Washington unravels Sojourner Truth's world within the broader panorama of...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Washington, Margaret
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Urbana : University of Illinois Press, 2009.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Truth, Sojourner, > 1799-1883.
Truth, Sojourner, > 1799-1883 > Friends and associates.
Truth, Sojourner, > 1799-1883 > Political and social views.
Social reformers.
Social problems.
Social conditions.
Race relations.
Progressivism (United States politics)
Political and social views.
Friendship.
African American women.
African American abolitionists.
HISTORY > United States > 19th Century.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Slavery.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY > Social Scientists & Psychologists.
Progressisme > États-Unis > Histoire > 19e siecle.
Problemes sociaux > États-Unis > Histoire > 19e siecle.
Reformateurs sociaux > États-Unis > Biographies.
Noires americaines > Biographies.
Abolitionnistes noirs americains > Biographies.
Progressivism (United States politics) > History > 19th century.
Social problems > United States > History > 19th century.
Social reformers > United States > Biography.
African American women > Biography.
African American abolitionists > Biography.
United States.
États-Unis > Relations raciales > Histoire > 19e siecle.
États-Unis > Conditions sociales > 19e siecle.
United States > Race relations > History > 19th century.
United States > Social conditions > 19th century.
History.
Biographies.
Electronic books.
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Sumario:This fascinating biography tells the story of nineteenth-century America through the life of one of its most magnetic and influential characters: Sojourner Truth. In an in-depth account of this amazing activist, Margaret Washington unravels Sojourner Truth's world within the broader panorama of African American slavery and the nation's most significant reform era. Organized chronologically into three distinct eras of Truth's life, Sojourner Truth's America examines the complex dynamics of the times in which she acted, beginning with the transnational contours of her spirituality and early life as a slave. Washington then highlights Truth's awakening during nineteenth-century America's progressive surge, which propelled her ascendancy as a rousing preacher and political orator despite her inability to read and write. Throughout the book, Washington explores Truth's passionate commitment to family and community, including her vision for a beloved community that extended beyond race, gender, and socioeconomic condition and embraced a common humanity. For Sojourner Truth, the significant model for such communalism was a primitive, prophetic Christianity. Illustrated with dozens of images of Truth and her contemporaries, Sojourner Truth's America provides important insights into the turbulent cultural and political climate of the age while also separating the many myths from the facts concerning this legendary American figure.
Descripción Física:1 online resource (520 pages).
ISBN:9780252093746

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