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Narrative of Sojourner Truth


 

Table of Contents

 

A Preface Which was Intended for a Postscript

Her Birth and Parentage

Accommodations 

Her Brothers and Sisters 

Her Religious Instruction
The Auction
Death of Mau-Mau Bett
Last Days of Bomefree
Death of Bomefree
Commencement of Isabella's Trials in Life
Trials Continued
Her Standing With Her New Master and Mistress
Isabella's Marriage
Isabella as a Mother
Slaveholder's Promises
Her Escape
Illegal Sale of Her Son
It is Often Darkest Just Before Dawn
Death of Mrs. Eliza Fowler
Isabella's Religious Experience
New Trials
Finding a Brother and Sister
Gleanings
The Matthias Delusion
Fasting
The Cause of Her Leaving the City
The Consequences of Refusing a Traveller a Night's Lodging
Some of Her Views and Reasonings
The Second Advent Doctrines
Another Camp-Meeting
Last Interview With Her Master
The Valiant Soldiers. Tune--"John Brown."

Part Second, "Book of Life"
"Pro-Slavery in Indiana
"Sojourner Truth
"Gala Day at Camp Ward
The Story of Her Interview With the President
"Condition of the Destitute Colored People of the District
The Voice of the Press
From Fall River Press
From New Jersey Papers
From a Williamsburgh (L.I.) Paper
From Boston Papers
"Emancipation Meeting
"Remarks By Rev. Gilbert Haven
"Truths From Sojourner Truth
From N.Y. and Philadelphia Papers
From Rochester Papers
"Sojourner Truth Talks to Ladies
From a Syracuse Paper
"Sojourner Truth
From Battle Creek Papers
Republican Meeting--Sojourner Truth
From Detroit Papers
"Sojourner Truth
"Sojourner Truth
From the N.Y. Tribune
"Sojourner Truth at Work
"Sojourner Truth in Springfield
"Sojourner Truth's Lecture
"The Fashions
From Kansas Papers
"George Truman and Sojourner Truth in Orange
Sojourner Truth's Correspondence
Letters and Signatures
A Letter of Introduction
"Sojourner Truth
Visits President Grant--Letter of Introduction From Gen. Howard
Extract From a Letter
Another Letter From the Same Person
Visits Western New York
Meeting in New Lisbon
Tobacco Victory--The Branded Hand
Sojourner Truth's Age
Her Parentage
Extent of Her Labors
Anecdotes. Sojourner Truth at Abington
Autographs of Distinguished Persons, Who Have Befriended Sojourner Truth by Words of Sympathy and Material Aid
Notes on the Autographs


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