Narrative of Sojourner Truth (Penguin Classics)

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Description: Truth's narrative is a powerful rendering of bondage, denial, and loss transcended by genius, family, and a spiritual base. It juxtaposes spirituality with moral turpitude. Truth was a freethinker who lived within a family of wretched circumstances in New York's Ulster County; she was a wife whose runaway husband had been beated into submission; a mother who reclaimed her only son from a brutal Georgia slaver; a person of principles who was duped by slavers and false prophets; and, finally, at 46, an orator, abolitionist, and member of the Northampton utopian community. As a companion to Truth's narrative, Washington presents a ... (more)

Manufacturer: Penguin Classics
Release date: 1 November 1998
ISBN-10 : 0140436782 | ISBN-13: 9780140436785

Tags: Biography (1), African American (1), DailyLit (1)

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