{"title":"Books by Sojourner Truth","description":null,"products":[{"product_id":"9780241472361","title":"Ain't I a Woman?","description":"\u003cb\u003eA collection of Sojourner Truth's iconic words, including her famous speech at the 1851 Women's Rights Convention in Akron, Ohio\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA former slave and one of the most powerful orators of her time, Sojourner Truth fought for the equal rights of black women throughout her life. This selection of her impassioned speeches is accompanied by the words of other inspiring African-American female campaigners from the nineteenth century.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThroughout history, some books have changed the world. They have transformed the way we see ourselves - and each other. They have inspired debate, dissent, war and revolution. They have enlightened, outraged, provoked and comforted. They have enriched lives--and upended them. Now Penguin brings you a new set of the acclaimed Great Ideas, a curated library of selections from the works of the great thinkers, pioneers, radicals and visionaries whose ideas shook civilization and helped make us who we are.","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56229646434677,"sku":"9780241472361","price":7.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9780241472361_9d5f777c-6f0b-4186-a8bf-f31198a231e5.jpg?v=1786012491"},{"product_id":"9780593242643","title":"Narrative of Sojourner Truth","description":"\u003cb\u003eThe autobiography of a Black woman who defied nineteenth-century conventions to become a preacher, popular speaker, abolitionist, and women’s rights activist. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003eSojourner Truth was an incredible, remarkable, epoch-defying woman who escaped from slavery and successfully sued for her son’s freedom, in addition to her career as a wildly successful orator and activist—a woman alive to the hypocrisies of her age, and unafraid to talk about them.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHer autobiography, which she dictated, is an outstanding historical document. Truth’s tale sheds a light on realities of slavery that are still rarely discussed: that she was a slave in upstate New York, not on a Southern plantation; that Dutch was her first language; that the circumstances of her slavery isolated her from a broader Black community; that her experience of religion was a racially integrated one, and became the means of her independence. Ultimately, \u003ci\u003eThe Narrative of Sojourner Truth\u003c\/i\u003e is the story of a great American that reveals aspects of slavery and free Black life that are too often overlooked.","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56368069935477,"sku":"9780593242643","price":16.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9780593242643_db079410-2c38-4d80-99fd-599d2ea18ba2.jpg?v=1786033432"},{"product_id":"narrative-of-sojourner-truth","title":"Narrative of Sojourner Truth","description":"\u003cb\u003eA powerful memoir about the path to freedom and justice from one of the most important activists in American history, freshly repackaged for the Union Square \u0026amp; Co. Signature Editions line.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Born into slavery in New York, Isabella Baumfree became Sojourner Truth, one of the 19th century’s most powerful and outspoken advocates for abolition and women’s rights. In her remarkable 1850 narrative—dictated to a friend because she could not read or write—she recounts her incredible journey to freedom.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e This foundational work of American literature offers an intimate and unflinching account of the brutalities of slavery in the North, the spiritual awakening that fueled Truth’s activism, and her tireless fight for justice. Both raw and deeply moving, her autobiography is a testament to speaking truth to power.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57524737147253,"sku":"9781454967590","price":9.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9781454967590.jpg?v=1787742954"}],"url":"https:\/\/backstory.london\/collections\/author-sojourner-truth.oembed","provider":"Backstory","version":"1.0","type":"link"}