Acknowledgements
Introduction
Part 1: Sojourner Truth
Chapter 1: Sojourner Truth, Character and Context
Chapter 2: Enslavement to Emancipation
Chapter 3: Preaching in New York
Chapter 4: Abolitionist and Suffragist
Chapter 5: Social Justice Activist to the End
Part 2: Documents
Bibliography
Index
Biography
Isabelle Kinnard Richman is the Coordinator of the Religious Studies Program at Virginia Commonwealth University.
Isabelle Richman paints a vivid picture of Sojourner Truth‘s life before she became a legend. The Truth that emerges is impossibly fragile and vulnerable, but also pious, just, and resilient. This book reinforces the reasons we love Sojourner Truth so much.
Nikki Taylor, author of Frontiers of Freedom: Cincinnati’s Black Community 1802–1868
Isabella Baumfree, who lived into adulthood as a slave in New York, in 1843 became Sojourner Truth, an apostle of equal rights regardless of race or gender. This concise biography, in peeling back the myths and retelling the life of an iconic nineteenth-century American, effectively weaves together the strands of race, religion, feminism, and abolitionism across the Civil War era.
Peter Wallenstein, author of Cradle of America: A History of Virginia
