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By Laura Hamilton Waxman

ISBN-10: 0761340041

ISBN-13: 9780761340041

ISBN-10: 0822571722

ISBN-13: 9780822571728

Actual or fake? Sojourner fact selected her personal identify. actual! whilst Sojourner fact made up our minds to alter her lifestyles to develop into a touring preacher, she replaced her identify. A freed slave, she sought after her new identify to explain her new activity.

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Sojourner Truth as Orator: Wit, Story, and Song. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1997. Mabee, Carlton, and Susan Mabee Newhouse. Sojourner Truth: Slave, Prophet, Legend. New York: New York University Press, 1993. Olive, Gilbert. Narrative of Sojourner Truth. New York: Oxford University Press, 1991. Painter, Nell Irvin. Sojourner Truth: A Life, A Symbol. New York: W. W. , 1996. edu/sojourner_truth Stetson, Erlene, and Linda David. Glorying in Tribulation: The Life Work of Sojourner Truth. East Lansing, MI: Michigan State University Press, 1994.

Back cover: Library of Congress (LC-DIG-ppmsca-08979) For quoted material: pp. 18, 30, Gilbert Olive, Narrative of Sojourner Truth (New York: Oxford University Press, 1991). First published in 1878 in Battle Creek, MI, for the author; p. 30 (second paragraph), Nell Irvin Painter, Sojourner Truth: A Life, a Symbol (New York: W. W. , 1996). THIS PAGE INTENTIONALLY LEFT BLANK WAXMAN True or False? Sojourner Truth chose her own name. True! When Sojourner Truth decided to change her life to become a traveling preacher, she changed her name.

Hold the Flag High. New York: Katherine Tegen Books/Amistad, 2005. Discover the true story of a skillful group of black soldiers and their black leader fighting for the North during the Civil War. Landau, Elaine. The Abolitionist Movement. New York: Children’s Press, 2004. Landau presents a history of the fight to outlaw slavery throughout the United States. McPherson, Stephanie Sammartino. Susan B. Anthony. Minneapolis: Lerner Publications Company, 2006. This is a biography of the famous women’s rights leader and her fight to give women the vote.

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