Research Catalog

Title

Narrative of Sojourner Truth : a bondswoman of olden time, emancipated by the New York Legislature in the early part of the present century : with a history of her labors and correspondence, drawn from her "Book of life".

Author

Gilbert, Olive.

Publication

Boston : Published for the author, 1875.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Titus, Frances W.
• Garrison, William Lloyd, 1805-1879.

Description

324 p. : port., facsims.; 20 cm.

Donor/Sponsor

Home to Harlem Project funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.

Alternative Title

• Sojourner Truth's narrative and book of life
• Book of life

Subjects

• Enslaved persons > New York (State) > Ulster County > Biography
• Enslaved persons > New York (State) > Biography
• Slavery > New York (State) > History
• Errata slips (Printing)
• Slavery > New York (State) > Ulster County > History
• African Americans > Biography
• Black author
• Truth, Sojourner, 1799-1883 > Portraits
• Abolitionists > United States > Biography
• Antislavery movements > United States
• Social reformers > United States > Biography
• Inscriptions (Provenance)
• African American abolitionists > Biography
• African American women > Biography

Genre/Form

• Errata slips (Printing).
• Inscriptions (Provenance)

Note

• "Narrative of Sojourner Truth" written for Sojourner Truth by Olive Gilbert. "Book of life" written for Sojourner Truth by Frances W. Titus.
• "Entered, according to Act of Congress, in the year 1875, by Mrs. Frances W. Titus, in the Office of the Librarian of Congress, at Washington."--copyright statement, verso of title page.
• Preface by William Lloyd Garrison.
• "The first 128 pages of this work are reprinted from stereotype plates, made in 1850 ... "--Errata slip at front of title page.
• "Book of life" has its own title page, p. [127].
• "Appendix"--p. 321-324, includes names of donors.

Indexed In (note)

• Library Company of Philadelphia. Afro-Americana, 1553-1906

Provenance (note)

• inscribed: in ink on half-title page "A. Schomburg." ; This copy is part of the original collection purchased from Arthur A. Schomburg in 1926.

Call Number

Sc Rare 326.92 (Truth) G (Gilbert, O. Narrative of Sojourner Truth. 1875)

OCLC

• 991308
• NYPGR991308-B

Author

Gilbert, Olive.

Title

Narrative of Sojourner Truth : a bondswoman of olden time, emancipated by the New York Legislature in the early part of the present century : with a history of her labors and correspondence, drawn from her "Book of life".

Imprint

Boston : Published for the author, 1875.

Indexed In:

Library Company of Philadelphia. Afro-Americana, 1553-1906, 10460

Provenance

Copy in Sc Rare 326.92 (Truth) G (copy 3) (accession no. B526630) inscribed: in ink on half-title page "A. Schomburg." ; This copy is part of the original collection purchased from Arthur A. Schomburg in 1926. NN

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Local Subject

Black author.

Added Author

Titus, Frances W.

Garrison, William Lloyd, 1805-1879.

Schomburg, Arthur Alfonso, 1874-1938, former owner, inscriber.

Added Title

Book of life

Research Call Number

Sc Rare 326.92 (Truth) G (Gilbert, O. Narrative of Sojourner Truth. 1875)