Editore: Kalpaz Publications, 2017
ISBN 10: 9351285308 ISBN 13: 9789351285304
Da: Books Puddle, New York, NY, U.S.A.
Condizione: New. pp. 85.
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Editore: Isha Books, 2017
ISBN 10: 9351285294 ISBN 13: 9789351285298
Da: Books Puddle, New York, NY, U.S.A.
Condizione: New. pp. 85.
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Editore: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2016
ISBN 10: 1539650448 ISBN 13: 9781539650447
Da: GreatBookPrices, Columbia, MD, U.S.A.
Condizione: As New. Unread book in perfect condition.
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ISBN 10: 1979933669 ISBN 13: 9781979933667
Da: GreatBookPrices, Columbia, MD, U.S.A.
Condizione: As New. Unread book in perfect condition.
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Editore: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2017
ISBN 10: 1542645743 ISBN 13: 9781542645744
Da: GreatBookPrices, Columbia, MD, U.S.A.
Condizione: As New. Unread book in perfect condition.
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Editore: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 1850
ISBN 10: 1544706677 ISBN 13: 9781544706672
Da: Ria Christie Collections, Uxbridge, Regno Unito
Condizione: New. In.
Editore: Independently published, 2017
ISBN 10: 1521282269 ISBN 13: 9781521282267
Da: Revaluation Books, Exeter, Regno Unito
Paperback. Condizione: Brand New. 134 pages. 9.00x6.00x0.34 inches. In Stock.
Editore: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform, 2014
ISBN 10: 1497571375 ISBN 13: 9781497571372
Da: THE SAINT BOOKSTORE, Southport, Regno Unito
Paperback / softback. Condizione: New. This item is printed on demand. New copy - Usually dispatched within 5-9 working days.
Editore: Published By The Author, Boston, 1875
Da: Raptis Rare Books, Palm Beach, FL, U.S.A.
Prima edizione
Rare first revised edition of the book that brought Truth's remarkable story to the world and the first edition of The Book of Life. Octavo, original cloth, gilt titles to the spine, illustrated frontispiece portrait of Truth. In very good condition, contemporary ownership inscription on front free endpaper. Rare and desirable. âA legend in her own time, Truthâs indomitable will has won her a permanent place in American History. Her evangelic fervor and plain wit helped to advance the causes of emancipation and womenâs rightsâ (Blockson 29). Evangelist, abolitionist, reformer and womenâs rights advocate Sojourner Truth was born to James and Elizabeth Baumfree, both slaves of a Dutch family in Ulster County, New York. Named âIsabelleâ by her parents, she developed deep religious feelings from her mother, from whom she was separated at age nine. After a number of new masters, and four children later, she escaped her last servitude shortly before the mandated New York State emancipation took effect on July 4, 1827. âI did not run off, for I thought that wicked, but I walked off, believing that to be all right.â In 1843 she renamed herself âTruthâ for God, and âSojournerâ because she intended to âtravel up and down the land,â preaching and testifying. She became associated with such renowned abolitionists as William Lloyd Garrison, Frederick Douglass, and David Ruggles, and toured the country speaking out against slavery. Her Narrative, dictated to her friend Olive Gilbert and subsidized by Garrison, gave Sojourner an income and increased her speaking engagements, where she sold copies of the book. In 1854, at the Ohio Womanâs Rights Convention in Akron, Ohio, she gave her most famous speechâ" with the legendary refrain, âAinât I a Woman?â: âThat man over there says that women need to be helped into carriages, and lifted over ditches, and to have the best place everywhere. Nobody ever helps me into carriages, or over mud puddles, or gives me any best place, and ainât I a woman?⦠I have borne thirteen children and seen most all sold off to slavery and when I cried out with my motherâs grief, none but Jesus heard meâ" and ainât I woman?â (Blockson, 3434; Schomburg, 326).
Editore: Published for the Author, New York, 1853
Da: Burnside Rare Books, ABAA, Portland, OR, U.S.A.
Condizione: Very Good. Second Edition. [Boston: Published for the Author, 1854]. Second edition, early issue with title page dated 1853 with a New York imprint, and front wrapper resetting title page within an ornamental border dated 1854 and with a Boston imprint. BAL 19381 describes an 1853 dated title like the present but dated 1855 on the front wrap--that issue, however, has different pagination as it includes a new introduction by Harriet Beecher Stowe. Bound in publisher's original wraps; front wrap is detached and rear is started, spine is fragile, barely visible erased name at top of front wrap, Very Good. Originally a Dutch-speaking slave in New York, Truth escaped to freedom with her infant daughter in 1826. Two years later, she sued her former owner to recover her son and became the first black woman to sue a white man and prevail. After gaining freedom, she would preach about abolition and human right for all. "A legend in her own time, Truth's indomitable will has won her a permanent place in American history. Her evangelic fervor and plain wit helped to advance the causes of emancipation and women's rights" (Blockson 29).
Editore: Published for the Author, New York, 1853
Da: Burnside Rare Books, ABAA, Portland, OR, U.S.A.
Condizione: Very Good+. Second Edition. Second edition, first issue with title page dated 1853 with a New York imprint and "Printed by Edward O. Jenkins" on front wrap seen in Blockson 29, and front wrapper resetting title page within an ornamental border. Does not feature Harriet Beecher Stowe's introduction; that would be present in later issues. Oval portrait frontispiece. [v],vi-xi, (12-13), 14-144 pp. Bound in publisher's original wraps. Very Good+ with light creasing to spine and small split to center at front joint with trivial tear, minor dampness staining to covers, creasing and chipping to corners. Contents lightly toned with scattered foxing. Originally a Dutch-speaking slave in New York, Truth escaped to freedom with her infant daughter in 1826. Two years later, she sued her former owner to recover her son and became the first black woman to sue a white man and prevail. After gaining freedom, she would preach about abolition and human right for all. "A legend in her own time, Truth's indomitable will has won her a permanent place in American history. Her evangelic fervor and plain wit helped to advance the causes of emancipation and women's rights" (Blockson 29). Truth's biographer Margaret Washington notes the 1853 edition "has been overlooked, and few copies exist. Apparently not even the Library of Congress has one" (Sojourner Truth's America, 435:20n).