Sojourner Truth
Subtitle: early abolitionist
By: Joanne Mattern.
Edition: 1st ed.
Series: Reading power; Women who shaped history
Publisher: PowerKids Press
Published: 2003
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 24
Subjects: Truth, Sojourner, d. 1883 -- Juvenile literature.; Truth, Sojourner, d. 1883.; African American abolitionists -- Biography -- Juvenile literature.; African American women -- Biography -- Juvenile literature.; Abolitionists -- United States -- Biography -- Juvenile literature.; Social reformers -- United States -- Biography -- Juvenile literature.; Abolitionists.; Reformers.; African Americans -- Biography.; Women -- Biography.
Genres: Juvenile literature.; Biography; Biography.
Description: Introduces the life of a woman who escaped slavery, traveled and made speeches to help free slaves before and during the Civil War, and helped freed slaves to find jobs and houses after the war.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 23) and index.
Table of contents: title: Isabella; title: Freedom!; title: Sojourner Truth; title: Sojourner's work; title: The final years.