Autobiography of a black woman who defied 19th-century conventions to become a preacher, popular speaker, abolitionist, and women's rights activist.
Sojourner Truth was a remarkable, astonishing woman who defied the times, escaping slavery and successfully suing for her son's freedom, as well as having a career as a hugely successful orator and activist - a woman aware of the hypocrisy of her time, and unafraid to talk about it.Her autobiography, which she dictated herself, is an outstanding historical document. Truth's story highlights the still rarely discussed realities of slavery. that she was a slave in upstate New York, not on a southern plantation; that Dutch was her mother tongue; that the conditions of her slavery isolated her from the broader black community; Her religious experience was a comprehensive experience for all races, and it became the means of her independence.Ultimately, “Sojourner Truth” is a great American story that exposes aspects of slavery and free black life that are often overlooked.
