JOURNEY TOWARD FREEDOM,; The Story of Sojourner Truth, illustrated with photographs and engravings
NY: W. W. Norton, (1967) Reprint. Reprirnt. 8vo, pp. 265. Paper residue adhering to both end papers, o/w a very good copy. Item #58145
Sojourner Truth's NARRATIVE is a landmark in African-American and women's history. Born into slavery as Isabella Baumfree in Ulster County, New York in the late nineteenth century, she won her emancipation under New York state law in 1827 and adopted the name Sojourner Truth in 1843. After a time as a domestic in New York City she embarked on a lifelong career as an advocate for civil and women's rights, travelling and speaking widely. She lived for a time at the utopian "Northampton Association" in western Massachusetts, and dictated her story to Olive Gilbert, publishing the first edition of the NARRATIVE in 1850. That work was reprinted from stereotyped plates a few times, and then published in the present edition in 1875, with the nearly two hundred page BOOK OF LIFE added to it. The additional material carries her story to the 1870s, including a description of her 1864 meeting with Abraham Lincoln, and letters written to her by various correspondents. "A legend in her own time, Sojourner Truth's indomitable will has won her a permanent place in American History" - Blockson. "In modern times she has come to stand for the conjunction of race, class, and gender in American liberal reform and symbolizes the unintimidated, articulate black woman. Acutely intelligent although totally unschooled, Truth represents a type of inspired, naive witness that has long appealed to Americans suspicious of over- education" - ANB.
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