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This simple narrative of an extraordinary life explores the power of a disinterested commitment to right and truth.Sojourner Truth: A Biography traces this remarkable woman's life from her birth through adulthood and to her death in 1883. Drawing from public pronouncements, personal correspondence, and journalistic accounts of key historical actors, it follows her extraordinary career and sets the events of her life in the larger context of U.S. social and political history.The years during which Truth lived bore witness to tremendous social and religious ferment in the United States, including, of course, the Civil War. Truth was directly involved, indeed an influential figure, in many contentious issues of the period, from slavery and abolition to religious revivalism, women's rights, temperance, racial reconciliation, and more. Her story serves as a prism through which readers will better understand how these complex matters were adjudicated in 19th-century America. More than that, her life demonstrates what courage, character, and principle can accomplish against all odds.
Larry G. Murphy, PhD, is professor of the history of Christianity at Garrett-Evangelical Theological Seminary in Evanston, IL.
AcknowledgmentsIntroductionTimeline: Events in the Life of Sojourner TruthChapter 1 Way Down in Egypt's LandChapter 2 Through Many Dangers, Toils, and SnaresChapter 3 In the Valley of the ShadowChapter 4 Go Ye into All the WorldChapter 5 Blowing the Trumpet in ZionChapter 6 A Change of Locus, But Not FocusChapter 7 Though a Host Encamp against MeChapter 8 So They Can Be a People among YouChapter 9 Same Song, New VersesChapter 10 "Something Remains for Me to Do"Chapter 11 "Ain't Got Time to Die": Still Working in the SunsetPostscript: Looking Back across the ValleySelected BibliographyIndex
highly recommended for both public and college biography collections.