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" Sojourner Truth : "
Nell Irvin Painter.
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874682
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Painter, Nell Irvin
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Sojourner Truth : : a life, a symbol /\ Nell Irvin Painter.
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First edition.
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New York :: W.W. Norton & Company,, [1996]
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, ©1996
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xii, 370 pages :: illustrations ;; 24 cm
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0393027392
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: 0393317080
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: 9780393027396
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: 9780393317084
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 293-343) and index.
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Isabella, Sojourner Truth, and American slavery -- Isabella, a slave -- Journey toward freedom -- Sanctification -- Plaintiff and witch -- New York perfectionism -- In the kingdom of Matthias -- Isabella's New York City -- Among the Millerites -- Northampton -- Douglass, Ruggles, and family -- The Narrative of Sojourner Truth -- Networks of antislavery feminism -- Akron, 1851 -- Vengeance and womanhood -- Spiritualism -- The "Libyan Sibyl" -- "Ar'n't I a woman?" -- Partisan and aristocrat -- Truth in photographs -- Presidents -- Washington's freedpeople -- Woman suffrage -- Kansas -- The end of a life -- The life of a symbol -- Coda: The triumph of a symbol.
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Sojourner Truth: ex-slave and fiery abolitionist, figure of imposing physique, riveting preacher and spellbinding singer who dazzled listeners with her wit and originality. Straight talking and unsentimental, Truth became a national symbol for strong black women - indeed, for all strong women. Like Harriet Tubman and Frederick Douglass, she is regarded as a radical of immense and enduring influence; yet unlike them, what is remembered of her consists more of myth than of historical fact. Now, in a masterful blend of scholarship and sympathetic understanding, eminent historian Nell Irvin Painter goes beyond the myths, words, and photographs to uncover the life of a complex woman who was born into slavery and died a legend. Inspired by religion, Truth transformed herself from a domestic servant named Isabella into an itinerant Pentecostal preacher; her words of empowerment have inspired black women and poor people the world over to this day. As an abolitionist and a feminist, Truth defied the stereotype of "the slave" as male and "the woman" as white - expounding a fact that still bears repeating: among blacks there are women; among women, there are blacks.
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Truth, Sojourner,1799-1883.
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Truth, Sojourner,-1883
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Truth, Sojourner, 1797-1883
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Truth, Sojourner,1799-1883
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Truth, Sojourner,-1883.
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Truth, Sojourner.
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Abolitionists-- United States, Biography.
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African American abolitionists, Biography.
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Social reformers-- United States, Biography.
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Women abolitionists-- United States, Biography.
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Women social reformers-- United States, Biography.
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Abolitionists-- United States, Biography
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Abolitionists.
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African American abolitionists-- Biography.
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African American abolitionists.
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Biografie
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Social reformers-- Biography.
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Social reformers.
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Women abolitionists-- Biography.
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Women abolitionists.
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Women social reformers-- Biography.
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Women social reformers.
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7.150.
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United States.
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| Dewey Classification
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305.5/67/092B
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E185.97.T8P35 1996
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B T874pa
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HD 475rvk
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NW 8295rvk
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Frank and Virginia Williams Collection of Lincolniana (Mississippi State University. Libraries)
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