Sojourner Truth : a life, a symbol
Painter, Nell Irvin
Sojourner Truth : a life, a symbol / Nell Irvin Painter. - 1st ed. - New York : W.W. Norton , c1996. - 370 p. : illus. ; 25 cm.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 293-343) and index.
Sojourner Truth first gained prominence at an 1851 Akron, Ohio, women's rights conference, saying, "Dat man over dar say dat woman needs to be helped into carriages, and lifted over ditches. . . . Nobody eber helps me into carriages, or ober mud-puddles . . . and ar'n't I a woman?" 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 personality. 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.
English.
0393027392
Truth, Sojourner, 1797-1883
African American abolitionists----Biography
Abolitionists---United States----Biography
Women abolitionists
Social reformers---United States----Biography
Women social reformers---United States----Biography
E185.97.T8 / P35 1996
92 TRU
Sojourner Truth : a life, a symbol / Nell Irvin Painter. - 1st ed. - New York : W.W. Norton , c1996. - 370 p. : illus. ; 25 cm.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 293-343) and index.
Sojourner Truth first gained prominence at an 1851 Akron, Ohio, women's rights conference, saying, "Dat man over dar say dat woman needs to be helped into carriages, and lifted over ditches. . . . Nobody eber helps me into carriages, or ober mud-puddles . . . and ar'n't I a woman?" 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 personality. 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.
English.
0393027392
Truth, Sojourner, 1797-1883
African American abolitionists----Biography
Abolitionists---United States----Biography
Women abolitionists
Social reformers---United States----Biography
Women social reformers---United States----Biography
E185.97.T8 / P35 1996
92 TRU
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