{"product_id":"narrative-of-sojourner-truth-by-sojourner-truth","title":"Narrative of Sojourner Truth by Sojourner Truth","description":"\u003cp\u003eFrom \u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eModern Library:\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"mb-4\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe autobiography of a Black woman who defied nineteenth-century conventions to become a preacher, popular speaker, abolitionist, and women's rights activist.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"mb-4\"\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003eSojourner Truth was an incredible, remarkable, epoch-defying woman who escaped from slavery and successfully sued for her son's freedom. She became a wildly successful orator and activist--a woman alive to the hypocrisies of her age, and unafraid to talk about them.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHer autobiography, which she dictated, is an outstanding historical document. Truth's tale sheds a light on realities of slavery that are\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003estill\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/i\u003erarely discussed: that she was a slave in upstate New York, not on a Southern plantation; that Dutch was her first language; that the circumstances of her slavery isolated her from a broader Black community; that her experience of religion was a racially integrated one, and became the means of her independence. Ultimately,\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Narrative of Sojourner Truth\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eis the story of a great American that reveals aspects of slavery and free Black life that are too often overlooked.\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Dotters Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53670568132901,"sku":"9780593242643","price":20.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/2167\/5269\/files\/9780593242643.jpg?v=1787692329","url":"https:\/\/dottersbooks.com\/products\/narrative-of-sojourner-truth-by-sojourner-truth","provider":"Dotters Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}