Truth spoke about abolition, women's rights, prison reform, and preached to the Legislature against capital punishment. Not everyone welcomed her preaching and ...
One of the most famous and admired African-American women in U.S. history, Sojourner Truth sang, preached, and debated at camp meetings across the country, led ...
From slavery to liberation to life as an abolitionist, feminist, orator, and preacher—the autobiography of a woman who refused to be anything but free. Bor...
'I am a woman's rights. I have plowed and reaped and husked and chopped and mowed, and can any man do more than that? I am as strong as any man that is now'A fo...
'I am a woman's rights. I have plowed and reaped and husked and chopped and mowed, and can any man do more than that? I am as strong as any man that is now'A fo...
A symbol of the strength of African-American women, and a champion of the rights of all women, Sojourner Truth was an illiterate former slave in New York State ...
byHarriet Jacobs,Sojourner Truth,Mary Prince
Straightforward, yet often poetic accounts of the battle for freedom, three memoirs by courageous black women vividly chronicle their struggles in the bonds of ...
byFrederick Douglass,Harriet Jacobs,Solomon Northup,Sojourner Truth
Four of the most important and enduring American slave narratives together in one volume. Until slavery was abolished in 1865, millions of men, women, and child...
byRodney Davis,Douglas Wilson,Michael Burlingame,Richard Carwardine,Edna Medford,James Oakes,Matthew Pinsker,Gerald Prokopowicz,John Sellers,Jennifer Weber,Frederick Douglass,H. Douglas,Thomas Hamilton,Robert Hamilton,Jabez Campbell,Henry Turner,Daniel Payne,Henry Garnet,Philip Bell,Edward Thomas,Alfred Smith,Frances Harper,George Vashon,Thomas Strother,Ezra Johnson,Alexander Cps,James Smith,Alexander Augusta,Jeremiah Sanderson,Osborne Anderson,Thomas Chester,James Hudson,John Proctor,Robert Purvis,Hannah Johnson,Leonard Grimes,Jeremiah Asher,John Menard, Henry African Civilization Society,William Florville,Henry Johnson,Thomas Street,John Morgan,Mattild Burr,Amos Beman,Richard Cain,Jean Roudanez,Arnold Bertonneau, George E North Carolina Freedmen,Don Rutter,George Stephens, James W.C Pennington,S. Africano",Annie Davis,S. W. Chase,Sojourner Truth,Martin Delany,George Washington,Isaac Hill,Alexander Newton,Jacob Thomas,Angeline Demby,Henry Wagoner, George W Le Vere,Elizabeth Keckley,Paul Trevigne, Thomas N.C Liverpool,H Cordelia,Emmanuel Love,William Scarborough,John Langston,Peter Clark,Ews Hammond,Charles Anderson,Booker Washington,Harriet Tubman,Julius Taylor, Ida B Wells-Barnett,Paul Dunbar,Elizabeth Thomas,Archibald Grimke,Elizabeth Keckly,William Sinclair,Jesse Barber,Mary Terrell,T. Fortune,Reverdy Ransom, W. E. Du Bois,William Trotter,Maude Griffin,Hightower Kealing,Silas Floyd,George Knox,Thomas Inborden,George Henderson,William Pickens,Kelly Miller,Etta Cottin,John Gandy,Fred Moore,Sylvanie Williams,Harry Smith,James Magee,James Curtis,John Bowen,Cora Ball,Thomas Baker,Josephine Yates,James Johnson,William Lewis,John Murphy,Robert Wright, Theophile T Allain, Oliva Ward Bush-Banks,Richard Gadsden,Edward Johnson,Alice Dunbar-Nelson,Hubert Harrison,Carter Woodson,Robert Moton,Georgia Johnson,Langston Hughes,Charles Chesnutt,Walter White,Lamar Perkins,Samuel Haynes,William Lilly,Robert Vann,William Imes,Eugene Gordon,Arthur Mitchell,Grace Evans,Aaron Payne,Claude McKay,Roscoe Simmons,Joel Rogers,Mary Bethune,John Franklin,Ella Baker,Luther Jackson,Willard Townsend,Ralph Bunche,Roy Wilkins,Mordecai Johnson,Carl Murphy,Jackie Robinson,Martin King,Thurgood Marshall,Edith Sampson,Benjamin Quarles,St. Drake,Charles Wesley,Daisy Bates,Julius X,Gwendolyn Brooks,Julius Lester,Lerone Bennett,Henry Moon,John Sengstacke,Norman Hodges,Arvarh Strickland,Mary Berry,Vincent Harding,Clarence Thomas,Barbara Fields,Henry Gates,Barack Obama
Though not blind to Abraham Lincoln's imperfections, Black Americans long ago laid a heartfelt claim to his legacy. At the same time, they have consciously resh...