truth, sojourner

Presents the life and times of the woman born into slavery who became a well-known abolitionist and crusader for the rights of African-Americans.

The autobiography of Sojourner Truth, the nineteenth-century African-American woman who moved from slave labor to preaching and promoting abolition and women's rights; also includes a collection of writings and anecdotes dating from Truth's lifetime.

Introduces the life of a woman who escaped slavery, traveled and made speeches to help free slaves before and during the Civil War, and helped freed slaves to find jobs and houses after the war.

A brief biography of the abolitionist and women's rights activist who spent twenty-eight years of her life as a slave.

A brief biography of the northern slave who became the first African-American woman to give antislavery lectures in the United States.

Explores the lives of Harriet Tubman and Sojourner Truth--two women who lived very similar lives--and imagines what was said between them during their one and only meeting.

Presents a short biography on former slave and abolitionist Sojourner Truth and chronicles her early life on a Dutch plantation in New York and her fight for emancipation and equal rights for all African Americans and women.

Follows the life of the former slave who gained renown as an abolitionist and advocate of women's rights.

Describes the life of the anti-slavery and women's rights activist, from her beginnings in slavery to her tireless campaign for the rights and welfare of the freedmen.

Describes the life and achievements of nineteenth-century African-American activist Sojourner Truth through her own recollections and the writings of individuals she knew.