The Narrative of Sojourner Truth

Narrative of Sojourner Truth is one of the most important documents of slaveryever written as well as being a partial autobiography of the woman who becamea pio... » 

Narrative of Sojourner Truth is one of the most important documents of slaveryever written as well as being a partial autobiography of the woman who becamea pioneer in the struggles for racial and sexual equality. With an eloquencethat resonates more than a century after its original publication in 1850 thenarrative bears witness to Sojourner Truths thirty years of bondage in upstateNew York and to the mystical revelations that turned her into a passionate andindefatigable abolitionist.In this new edition which has been edited and extensively annotated by thedistinguished scholar and biographer of Sojourner Truth Margaret WashingtonTruths testimony takes on added dimensions as a lens into the littleknownworld of northern slavery as a chronicle of spiritual conversion and as aninspiring account of a black woman striving for personal and politicalempowerment. «