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• ISBN: 0393317080
• ISBN: 9780393317084
• Physical Description: xii, 370 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
• Publisher: New York : W.W. Norton, 1997, ©1996.

Content descriptions

General Note:

"First published as a Norton paperback 1997."

Originally published: 1996.

Bibliography, etc. Note:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 293-343) and index.

Formatted Contents Note:

Isabella, Sojourner Truth, and American slavery -- Isabella, a slave -- Journey toward freedom -- Sanctification -- Plaintiff and witch -- New York perfectionism -- In the kingdom of Matthias -- Isabella's New York City -- Among the Millerites -- Northampton -- Douglass, Ruggles, and family -- The Narrative of Sojourner Truth -- Networks of antislavery feminism -- Akron, 1851 -- Vengeance and womanhood -- Spiritualism -- The "Libyan Sibyl" -- "Ar'n't I a woman?" -- Partisan and aristocrat -- Truth in photographs -- Presidents -- Washington's freedpeople -- Woman suffrage -- Kansas -- The end of a life -- The life of a symbol -- Coda: The triumph of a symbol.

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Truth, Sojourner, 1799-1883.
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Abolitionists > United States > Biography.
Women abolitionists > United States > Biography.
Social reformers > United States > Biography.
Women social reformers > United States > Biography.
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Social reformers.
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