Narrative Of Sojourner Truth, A Northern Slave, Emancipated From Bodily Servitude By The State Of New York, In 1828. With A Portrait - Hardcover

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9789351285298: Narrative Of Sojourner Truth, A Northern Slave, Emancipated From Bodily Servitude By The State Of New York, In 1828. With A Portrait

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ABOUT THE BOOK: At least three millions person in these states are in this condition. They were made Slaves and are held such by force, and by being put in fear and this for no crime. Suppose I should seize you, rob you of your liberty drive you into the field and make you work without pay as long as you live, would that be justice and kindness or monstrous injustice and cruelty? Now, everybody knows that the slaveholders do these thing to the slaves every day and yet it is stoutly affirmed that they treat them well and kindly and that their tender regard for their slaves restrain their master from inflicting cruelties among them. ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Sojourner Truth (17971883), born Isabella Baumfree was an African abolitionist and woman’s rights activist. Truth was born into slavery in Swartekill, Ulster County. New York but escaped with her infant daughter to freedom in 1826. After going to court to recover her son, in 1828, she became the first black woman to win such a case against a white man. She gave herself the name Sojourner Truth in 1843. Her best known speech was delivered extemporaneously, in 1851, at the Ohio Women Rights convention in Akron, Ohio. The speech became widely known during the civil war. The Title 'Narrative of Sojourner Truth, a Northern Slave, Emancipated From Bodily Servitude By the State of New York, in 1828. With a Portrait written/authored/edited by Dictated By Sojourner Truth; Edited By Oliver Gilbert.', published in the year 2017. The ISBN 9789351285298 is assigned to the Hardcover version of this title. This book has total of pp. 85 (Pages). The publisher of this title is Kalpaz Publications. This Book is in English. The subject of this book is Biography / African Americans / Discrimination & Racism. Size of the book is 14.34 x 22.59 cms

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