The Narrative of Sojourner Truth

by Olive Gilbert, Sojourner Truth

EN·~3 hours·24 chapters

Chapters

24 total

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NARRATIVE OF SOJOURNER TRUTH

0:07

NARRATIVE OF SOJOURNER TRUTH - HER BIRTH AND PARENTAGE.

1:29

ACCOMMODATIONS.

2:04

HER BROTHERS AND SISTERS.

2:48

HER RELIGIOUS INSTRUCTION.

2:38

THE AUCTION.

3:17

DEATH OF MAU-MAU BETT.

2:00

LAST DAYS OF BOMEFREE.

4:50

DEATH OF BOMEFREE.

2:44

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Description

Slavery

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Duration

~3 hours (195K characters)

Publisher of text edition

Project Gutenberg

Release date

Mar 1, 1999

Rights

Public domain in the USA.

Source

https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/1674

Subjects

Truth, Sojourner, -1883 African American abolitionists -- Biography African Americans -- Biography Abolitionists -- United States -- Biography Social reformers -- United States -- Biography

About the authors

Olive Gilbert

Best known as the editor who helped bring Sojourner Truth’s life story into print, this 19th-century American abolitionist is remembered for preserving one of the movement’s most important firsthand narratives.

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Sojourner Truth

1797–1883

Born into slavery in New York, she remade herself into one of the 19th century’s most powerful voices for freedom, faith, and women’s rights. Her speeches and life story still stand out for their courage, plainspoken force, and deep moral conviction.

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