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Sojourner Truth: American Abolitionist (Heroes of the Faith)
Terry Whalin

Sojourner Truth: American Abolitionist (Heroes of the Faith)

9781557489333 [Biography]

Philippines (Jun 01, 1997)
CT 206 .H1 .T18
| Paperback
208 pages | 130 x 198 mm | PHILIPPINES | English
Dewey 305.567092
LC Classification E185.97.T8 .W48 1997
LC Control No. 97171311

Genre

  • Barbour Publishing, Incorporated
  • ULRICHSVILLE OH

Subject

  • Abolitionists
  • Abolitionists/ United States/ Biography
  • African American Abolitionists
  • African American Abolitionists/ Biography
  • Social Reformers/ United States/ Biography

Plot

The first black woman abolitionist, Sojourner Truth was born and raised a slave. Yet she would devote her life to the struggle for black freedom, traveling widely through New England and the Midwest on speaking tours after receiving, in 1843, a command from God to preach.a