We will be free : the life and faith of Sojourner Truth
(2023)

Nonfiction

Book

Call Numbers:
BIOGRAPHY/TRUTH,S

Availability

Locations Call Number Status
Biography & Memoir BIOGRAPHY/TRUTH,S Available

Details

PUBLISHED
Grand Rapids, Michigan : William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company, [2023]
DESCRIPTION

xx, 270 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

ISBN/ISSN
9780802872470, 0802872476, 9780802872470 40031619859, 40031618146
LANGUAGE
English
NOTES

Prologue: She belongs to humanity -- Isabella, a northern slave -- The vision -- Lost sheep in Gotham -- The kingdom of Matthias -- "Why sit ye here and die?" -- The lever of truth -- The moral reform depot -- "Make me a double woman" -- Between a hawk and a buzzard -- "Am I not a woman and a sister?" -- "We believe you are a man" -- Showdown at the Angola Courthouse -- "I sell the shadow" -- Truth goes to Washington -- Reconstruction -- Give woman her rights -- "I go in for agitating" -- "My name was up" -- "We will all be as one" -- Appendix: Three versions of Truth's most famous speech, "Ain't I a woman?"

"An exploration of the ways faith animated the life and activism of Sojourner Truth, pathbreaking abolitionist and suffragette"--