ISBN:
9780252093746
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0252093747
Language:
English
Pages:
Online Ressource (xx, 478 p.)
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ill.
Edition:
Online-Ausg.
Parallel Title:
Print version Sojourner Truth's America
DDC:
306.362092
Keywords:
Truth, Sojourner -1883
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Truth, Sojourner -1883 Political and social views
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Truth, Sojourner -1883 Friends and associates
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Truth, Sojourner
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Truth, Sojourner Political and social views
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Truth, Sojourner Friends and associates
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Truth, Sojourner Friends and associates
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Truth, Sojourner Political and social views
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Truth, Sojourner
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Truth, Sojourner d. 1883
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Truth, Sojourner d. 1883 Political and social views
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Truth, Sojourner d. 1883 Friends and associates
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Truth, Sojourner
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African American abolitionists Biography
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African American women Biography
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Social reformers Biography
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United States
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Social problems History
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19th century
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United States
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Progressivism (United States politics) History
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19th century
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African American women Biography
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Social reformers Biography
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Social problems History 19th century
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Progressivism (United States politics) History 19th century
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African American abolitionists Biography
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African American abolitionists Biography
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African American women Biography
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Social reformers Biography
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Social problems History 19th century
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Progressivism (United States politics) History 19th century
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BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY ; Social Scientists & Psychologists
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SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Slavery
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HISTORY ; United States ; 19th Century
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African American abolitionists
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African American women
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Friendship
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Political and social views
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Progressivism (United States politics)
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Race relations
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Social conditions
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Social problems
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Social reformers
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Biographies
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History
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United States Social conditions
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19th century
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United States Race relations
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History
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19th century
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United States Race relations 19th century
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History
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United States Social conditions 19th century
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United States Race relations 19th century
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History
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United States Social conditions 19th century
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United States
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Electronic books
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Electronic books
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Biografie
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Biografie
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Biographie
Abstract:
Front Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright -- TOC -- Intro -- Part I -- Part 2 -- Part 3 -- Notes -- Index -- Back Cover
Abstract:
This fascinating biography tells the story of nineteenth-century America through the life of one of its most magnetic and influential characters: Sojourner Truth. In an in-depth account of this amazing activist, Margaret Washington unravels Sojourner Truth's world within the broader panorama of African American slavery and the nation's most significant reform era. Organized chronologically into three distinct eras of Truth's life, Sojourner Truth's America examines the complex dynamics of the times in which she acted, beginning with the transnational contours of her spirituality and early life as a slave. Washington then highlights Truth's awakening during nineteenth-century America's progressive surge, which propelled her ascendancy as a rousing preacher and political orator despite her inability to read and write. Throughout the book, Washington explores Truth's passionate commitment to family and community, including her vision for a beloved community that extended beyond race, gender, and socioeconomic condition and embraced a common humanity. For Sojourner Truth, the significant model for such communalism was a primitive, prophetic Christianity. Illustrated with dozens of images of Truth and her contemporaries, Sojourner Truth's America provides important insights into the turbulent cultural and political climate of the age while also separating the many myths from the facts concerning this legendary American figure
Note:
Includes bibliographical references (p. 381-454) and index. - Description based on print version record
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