The Book Of Life - Softcover

Truth, Sojourner

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1874509956 ISBN 13: 9781874509950

Verlag: The X Press, 1999

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Everybody's talking about black men gettin their rights, but not a word about the black woman. I am a woman's rights. I have as much muscle as any man, and can do as much work as any man. I have plowed and reaped and husked and chopped and mowed. Can any man do more than that? I can cany as much as any man, and can eat as much, too. / am as strong as any man. I have a right to have just as much as a man. If black men get their rights, and not black women theirs, the black man will be masters over their women, and it will be just as bad as it was before. Black women are coming up, and a few of the men are coming with them...
Sojourner Truth was the first black feminist. Long before it became fashionable, this strong-boned, chisel-faced, sit-up-straight woman was a lone voice speaking for the rights of black women in the nineteenth century. Her refusal to capitulate women s rights for the sake of black rights, resulted in her being challenged by an angry crowd of men to submit herself to a physical examination to prove she was a woman. Sojourner boldly bared her breasts, declaring it was their shame, not hers, to do so.
The Book of Life is a unique insight into how black women viewed the world in the nineteenth century, with a message for the woman of today: Don t just talk about getting your rights, go out and seize them!

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Sojourner Truth was the first black feminist. Long before it became fashionable, this strong-boned, chisel-faced, sit-up-straight woman was a lone voice speaking for the rights of black women in the nineteenth century. Her refusal to capitulate women's rights for the sake of black rights, resulted in her being challenged by an angry crowd of men to submit herself to a physical examination to prove she was a woman. Sojourner boldly bared her breasts, declaring it was their shame, not hers, to do so.
The Book of Life is a unique insight into how black women viewed the world in the nineteenth century, with a message for the woman of today: "Don't just talk about getting your rights, go out and seize them!"

Biografía del autor:

Sojourner Truth, born into slavery in the late 1790s as Isabella Baumfree, was the first African-American woman to win a court case when she reclaimed her son from the man who sold him back into slavery after his emancipation. After changing her name, Truth travelled as a Methodist preacher and spoke out regularly on behalf of the abolitionist cause. In 1851, at the Ohio s Women Rights Convention, Truth delivered her most well-known speech Ain t I a Woman? During her lifetime, Truth spoke out about many causes, including women s suffrage, prison reform, property rights for former slaves, and she encouraged African-Americans to enlist in the Union Army. Her activism led her to make connections with many of her contemporary abolitionists such as Harriet Beecher Stowe and Frances Gage. In 1850, Truth s dictated her memoir, The Narrative of Sojourner Truth, to her friend Olive Gilbert and the title was soon met with acclaim by abolitionist readers and supporters. Truth died in 1883 and was buried alongside her family in Battle Creek, Michigan.

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• Verlag: The X Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 1999
• ISBN 10: 1874509956
• ISBN 13: 9781874509950
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 224