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Sojourner Truth: Exploring the Achievements of a Self-Emancipated Slave from Beginning to End
Slave to brave emancipator, activist, and hero...
Imagine being born into the most broken of families. Imagine never meeting most of your siblings because they’ve all been sold away. Imagine being sold yourself—to a master who doesn’t speak your language and beats you savagely. Picture enduring years of slavery, living at the mercy of people who treat you as property, and then sell you off on a whim. Do you believe that you could hold your head high through all of this and keep faith in your beliefs? How might you find your very own voice—loud and clear, dynamic and true—despite these forces of evil?
Such is the story of Isabella Baumfree, who later called herself Sojourner Truth as part of her divine mission. She took every hardship she faced and turned it into self-improvement. She met every ounce of racism, hate, and scorn, and transformed it into compassion. She freed herself from slavery and spent the rest of her life traveling the country, fighting to make sure that no one else would suffer the same indignities ever again...
Explore the travels, times, and tribulations of Sojourner Truth today. An understanding of the past may forge a better future.
Imagine being born into the most broken of families. Imagine never meeting most of your siblings because they’ve all been sold away. Imagine being sold yourself—to a master who doesn’t speak your language and beats you savagely. Picture enduring years of slavery, living at the mercy of people who treat you as property, and then sell you off on a whim. Do you believe that you could hold your head high through all of this and keep faith in your beliefs? How might you find your very own voice—loud and clear, dynamic and true—despite these forces of evil?
Such is the story of Isabella Baumfree, who later called herself Sojourner Truth as part of her divine mission. She took every hardship she faced and turned it into self-improvement. She met every ounce of racism, hate, and scorn, and transformed it into compassion. She freed herself from slavery and spent the rest of her life traveling the country, fighting to make sure that no one else would suffer the same indignities ever again...
Explore the travels, times, and tribulations of Sojourner Truth today. An understanding of the past may forge a better future.
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First published May 2, 2020
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May 30, 2020
I have looked up to her for many years and wanted learn much more about her. This book is very well researched and I am sold glad that I have read it. I knew that she was tall and well muscled from many years of long labor but I did not know how determined she was, how much she traveled to get her beliefs in the end of of slavery and the rights of women. Sojourner Truth went to court to gain freedom for her young son. She had the courage to the face the court because how terrible it would for her son to be sent down South. She knew she would never see him again.
Her mothe was a great inspiration to her and the starting point for her religious beliefs, as she more people they developed more. I really enjoyed reading about her religious evolution. Amazingly, she had conversation with many influential people. Not backing away with shyness, she was their equal. Not interested in material goods or money, she walked many through many states to spread her word. I am totally impressed with the details of her life and would have love to meet and talked to her if we were in the both time period.
This is book that I highly recommend and I plan to loan it out to friends.
Her mothe was a great inspiration to her and the starting point for her religious beliefs, as she more people they developed more. I really enjoyed reading about her religious evolution. Amazingly, she had conversation with many influential people. Not backing away with shyness, she was their equal. Not interested in material goods or money, she walked many through many states to spread her word. I am totally impressed with the details of her life and would have love to meet and talked to her if we were in the both time period.
This is book that I highly recommend and I plan to loan it out to friends.
May 8, 2020
“Ain’t I a woman?” – The life of a cultural icon
Author Adrian Ramos and History Compacted extend a well-established format of sharing important historical information in fine book form. In an age of instant gratification, transferring cognition to immediate utilization of the internet (as in Google) to avoid research in a library, and the preoccupation with social media outpacing educational ventures, this line of books takes learning in hand and condenses history into digestible portions – without omitting facts or significant aspects. The idea is sound, the need is important to recognize.
Too few people know the history of one of the first women’s rights activists and abolitionists – Isabella Baumfree, known in her time as Sojourner Truth – and in this excellent book this important woman’s significant history is shared. In the author’s usual style the book opens with reflections – “Sometimes a person is remembered for being larger than life. Sometimes, “larger then life” does not begin to do that person justice. This might have been an apt description of the person who stood in front of a crowd at the Women’s Convention in Akron, Ohio in May of 1851, She stood nearly six feet tall and possessed the strong physique of a field laborer despite being in her fifties. Her speech was loud and powerful, whether she was singing hymns or delivering an improvised speech. Her skin was dark and her body bore the scars and reminders of a former slave who had lived a hard life. Her audience was almost the complete opposite in every way, but they listened to her with rapt attention…’ With that image in mind the book begins.
In fine detail the life of Sojourner Truth is described. She was an African American born into slavery in 1797, and after traumatic years as a bought and sold slave, escaped with her infant, freed herself and spent her life crossing the United States as an outspoken advocate for abolition, temperance, and civil and women’s rights, and other causes in which she believed. Now her legacy is secure and her position in history is best known for that famous 1851 speech, referred to as the “Ain’t I A Woman” – one of the memorable speeches similar to Martin Luther King’s “I have a dream’ speech of 1963 – over 100 years later. And as the author states, “Her story isn’t just something to be admired, but an aid to help the average person aspire to similar feats of selflessness for the benefit of the persecuted, the disadvantaged, and in the end, society as a whole.’
Well written and immensely important to read, this excellent examination of the life and legacy of Sojourner Truth is a book that should be read by everyone – a source of learning and inspiration for all. Highly recommended.
Author Adrian Ramos and History Compacted extend a well-established format of sharing important historical information in fine book form. In an age of instant gratification, transferring cognition to immediate utilization of the internet (as in Google) to avoid research in a library, and the preoccupation with social media outpacing educational ventures, this line of books takes learning in hand and condenses history into digestible portions – without omitting facts or significant aspects. The idea is sound, the need is important to recognize.
Too few people know the history of one of the first women’s rights activists and abolitionists – Isabella Baumfree, known in her time as Sojourner Truth – and in this excellent book this important woman’s significant history is shared. In the author’s usual style the book opens with reflections – “Sometimes a person is remembered for being larger than life. Sometimes, “larger then life” does not begin to do that person justice. This might have been an apt description of the person who stood in front of a crowd at the Women’s Convention in Akron, Ohio in May of 1851, She stood nearly six feet tall and possessed the strong physique of a field laborer despite being in her fifties. Her speech was loud and powerful, whether she was singing hymns or delivering an improvised speech. Her skin was dark and her body bore the scars and reminders of a former slave who had lived a hard life. Her audience was almost the complete opposite in every way, but they listened to her with rapt attention…’ With that image in mind the book begins.
In fine detail the life of Sojourner Truth is described. She was an African American born into slavery in 1797, and after traumatic years as a bought and sold slave, escaped with her infant, freed herself and spent her life crossing the United States as an outspoken advocate for abolition, temperance, and civil and women’s rights, and other causes in which she believed. Now her legacy is secure and her position in history is best known for that famous 1851 speech, referred to as the “Ain’t I A Woman” – one of the memorable speeches similar to Martin Luther King’s “I have a dream’ speech of 1963 – over 100 years later. And as the author states, “Her story isn’t just something to be admired, but an aid to help the average person aspire to similar feats of selflessness for the benefit of the persecuted, the disadvantaged, and in the end, society as a whole.’
Well written and immensely important to read, this excellent examination of the life and legacy of Sojourner Truth is a book that should be read by everyone – a source of learning and inspiration for all. Highly recommended.
August 29, 2020
Overall, very informative, and a good, balanced beginner's biography. It, however, lacks depth and thr narrative punch that truly great biographies contain.
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