Sojourner Truth's Biography God's Faithful Pilgrim

[Sojourner Truth], Arthur Huff Fauset

First Edition

[Slavery and Abolition] Fauset, Arthur Huff. Sojourner Truth God's Faithful Pilgrim. Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina Press, First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover187 pages. Attractively bound in a blue cloth hardcover, gilt title and spine, housed in its original dust jacket. The unclipped dust jacket illuminates a detailed portrait of abolitionist and women's rights activist, Isabella Baumfree, commonly known as Sojourner Truth. Original 1938 price of the book listed at $1.00 in within the dust jacket. Octavo. This book follows the intriguing life of born enslaved woman, Isabella Baumfree, beginning in her birth year of 1797. Reared on a New York plantation, Isabella faces countless horrors and hardships early on in her lifetime. An exceptional mind deprived of basic educational resources, Baumfree eloquently traverses the societal obstacles that hinder her intellectual potential. Despite these obstacles, she acquires a vast range of knowledge. In 1843, Baumfree changes her name to Sojourner Truth, dedicating her life to spreading the gospel and anti-slavery messages across the United States. The following year, she joins a Massachusetts abolitionist organization, the Northampton Association of Education and Industry, where she met prominent abolitionists including Frederick Douglass, and successfully launched her career as an equal rights activist. Among Truth's contributions to the abolitionist movement was the speech she delivered at the Ohio Women’s Rights Convention in 1851, where she advocated equal rights for Black women. This book is an ode to the significant contributions that Sojourner Truth has made to African American activism, abolition, and women's rights. 1938. Bears an ownership inscription by "Miss Elizabeth Taylor to [?] Byrd Taylor" on front flyleaf. Dust jacket is somewhat worn with uneven edges, mostly affecting the spine, but not affecting text or illustration. Hardcover and inner text are very clean. Overall in very good condition.

Item #18819

Price: $225.00