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Title

Narrative of Sojourner Truth : a bondswoman of olden time, emancipated by the New York Legislature in the early part of the present century : with a history of her labors and correspondence, drawn from her "Book of Life" : also, a memorial chapter, giving the particulars of her last sickness and death.

Author

Gilbert, Olive.

Publication

Battle Creek, Mich. : Review and Herald Office, 1884.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Titus, Frances W.
• Review and Herald Office (Battle Creek, Mich.), publisher.

Description

xii, 13-320, 32 p., [1] leaf of plates : ports., facsims.; 20 cm.

Donor/Sponsor

Home to Harlem Project funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.

Alternative Title

• Sojourner Truth's narrative and book of life
• In memoriam. Sojourner Truth, born, in Ulster county, state of New York, sometime in the eighteenth century. Died, in the city of Battle Creek, Michigan, November 26, 1883

Subjects

• Slavery > New York (State) > Ulster County > History
• Slaves > New York (State) > Ulster County > Biography
• African American women > Biography
• Social reformers > United States > Biography
• Abolitionists > United States > Biography
• Antislavery movements > United States
• Slaves > New York (State) > Biography
• Black author
• African American abolitionists > Biography
• Truth, Sojourner, 1799-1883 > Portraits
• African Americans > Biography
• Slavery > New York (State) > History

Note

• Written for Sojourner Truth by Olive Gilbert.
• "Entered, according to Act of Congress, in the year 1875, by Mrs. Frances W. Titus, In the Office of the Librarian of Congress, at Washington."--copyright statement, verso of title page.
• "In memoriam. Sojourner Truth, born, in Ulster county, state of New York, sometime in the eighteenth century. Died, in the city of Battle Creek, Michigan, November 26, 1883."--p. [2]-32 at end.
• Frontispiece portrait with caption, "Sojourner Truth. From a photograph, taken a short time before her death"; signed: "Photo Electrotype Eng. Co. N.Y."

Indexed In (note)

• Library Company of Philadelphia. Afro-Americana, 1553-1906 (2nd ed.)

Source (note)

• Arthur A. Schomburg;

Provenance (note)

• is part of the original collection purchased from Arthur A. Schomburg in 1926.

Call Number

Sc Rare 326.92 (Truth)-G (Gilbert, O. Narrative of Sojourner Truth. 1884)

LCCN

19007412

OCLC

• 2488155
• NYPGR2488155-B

Author

Gilbert, Olive.

Title

Narrative of Sojourner Truth : a bondswoman of olden time, emancipated by the New York Legislature in the early part of the present century : with a history of her labors and correspondence, drawn from her "Book of Life" : also, a memorial chapter, giving the particulars of her last sickness and death.

Imprint

Battle Creek, Mich. : Review and Herald Office, 1884.

Indexed In:

Library Company of Philadelphia. Afro-Americana, 1553-1906 (2nd ed.), 10461

Provenance

Copy in Sc Rare 326.92 (Truth)-G (accession no. B389150) is part of the original collection purchased from Arthur A. Schomburg in 1926.

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Local Subject

Black author.

Added Author

Titus, Frances W., copyright holder.

Review and Herald Office (Battle Creek, Mich.), publisher.

Schomburg, Arthur Alfonso, 1874-1938, former owner.

Added Title

In memoriam. Sojourner Truth, born, in Ulster county, state of New York, sometime in the eighteenth century. Died, in the city of Battle Creek, Michigan, November 26, 1883

Research Call Number

Sc Rare 326.92 (Truth)-G (Gilbert, O. Narrative of Sojourner Truth. 1884)