Retellings by Arlene Clarke
The autobiography of a Black woman who defied nineteenth-century conventions to become a preacher, popular speaker, abolitionist, and women's rights activist. Sojourner Truth was an incredible, remarkable, epoch-defying woman who escaped from slavery and successfully sued for her son's freedom, in addition to her career as a wildly successful orator and activist--a woman alive to the hypocrisies of her age, and unafraid to talk about them. Her autobiography, which she dictated, is an outstanding historical document. Truth's tale sheds a light on realities of slavery that are still rarely discussed: that she was a slave in upstate New York, not on a Southern plantation; that Dutch was her first language; that the circumstances of her slavery isolated her from a broader Black community; that her experience of religion was a racially integrated one, and became the means of her independence. Ultimately, The Narrative of Sojourner Truth is the story of a great American that reveals aspects of slavery and free Black life that are too often overlooked.| SKU | Unavailable |
| ISBN 13 | 9780072414691 |
| ISBN 10 | 0072414693 |
| Title | Retellings |
| Author | Arlene Clarke |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | McGraw-Hill Humanities/Social Sciences/Languages |
| Year published | 2003-08-18 |
| Number of pages | 1445 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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