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Sojourner Truth´s America
Margaret Washington
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Description for Sojourner Truth´s America
Paperback. An expansive new biography of Sojourner Truth, charismatic preacher and activist Num Pages: 520 pages, 38 black and white photographs. BIC Classification: BG; HBJK; HBTS; JHMP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 346 x 236 x 34. Weight in Grams: 914.
This fascinating biography tells the story of nineteenth-century America through the life of one of its most charismatic 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. Born into bondage among the Hudson Valley Dutch in Ulster County, New York, Isabella was sold several times, married, and bore five children before fleeing in 1826 with her infant daughter one year before New York slavery was abolished. In 1829, she moved to New York City, where ... Read more
This fascinating biography tells the story of nineteenth-century America through the life of one of its most charismatic 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. Born into bondage among the Hudson Valley Dutch in Ulster County, New York, Isabella was sold several times, married, and bore five children before fleeing in 1826 with her infant daughter one year before New York slavery was abolished. In 1829, she moved to New York City, where ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
University of Illinois Press United States
Number of pages
520
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Condition
New
Weight
775g
Number of Pages
520
Place of Publication
Baltimore, United States
ISBN
9780252078019
SKU
V9780252078019
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About Margaret Washington
Margaret Washington is a professor of history at Cornell University. She is the author of the award-winning book "A Peculiar People": Slave Religion and Community-culture among the Gullahs and the editor of The Narrative of Sojourner Truth.
Reviews for Sojourner Truth´s America
Winner of the inaugural 2010 OAH Darlene Clark Hine Award. A Choice Outstanding Academic Title, 2010. Co-winner of the 2009 Letitia Woods Brown Memorial Book Award. "This biography is admirable in its thoroughness and in Washington's commitment to her subject and is well worth consulting."
Publishers Weekly “This scholarly biography, meticulously researched ... is destined to be the definitive ... Read more
Publishers Weekly “This scholarly biography, meticulously researched ... is destined to be the definitive ... Read more