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Author Washington, Margaret.

Title Sojourner Truth's America / Margaret Washington.

Imprint Urbana : University of Illinois Press, 2009.

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 Axe 3rd Floor Stacks  305.896 T777Bw 2009    ---  Available
Description xx, 478 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (p. 381-454) and index.
Contents Introduction : The three lives of Sojourner Truth -- African and Dutch religious heritage -- Home is like a grave -- Better to me than a man -- Like Hagar and her children -- A rushing mighty wind -- Sanctification and perfection -- I will crush them with the truth -- The antislavery vanguard, 1833-1843 -- The Spirit calls me there -- A holy city -- The cold water army, Olive Gilbert, and Sojourner's Narrative -- The Bloodhound Bill and intensified activism -- The New York campaign -- God, you drive -- I go in for agitatin' -- Truth is powerful -- Proclaim liberty throughout the land -- Was woman true? -- I am on my way to Kansas -- Epilogue : Well done, good and faithful servant.
Subject Truth, Sojourner, 1799-1883.
Truth, Sojourner, 1799-1883 -- Political and social views.
Truth, Sojourner, 1799-1883 -- Friends and associates.
African American abolitionists -- Biography.
African American women -- Biography.
Social reformers -- United States -- Biography.
Social problems -- United States -- History -- 19th century.
Progressivism (United States politics) -- History -- 19th century.
United States -- Social conditions -- 19th century.
United States -- Race relations -- History -- 19th century.
ISBN 9780252034190 (cloth : alk. paper)
0252034198 (cloth : alk. paper)

 
    
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