The Narrative of Sojourner Truth
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Descripción editorial
An Apple Books Classics edition.
The Narrative of Sojourner Truth was first published in 1850—a dozen years before the Emancipation Proclamation. At the time, this rare, first-person account of the horrors of slavery was a revelation for readers. Truth’s unsentimental descriptions of her experiences, including the beatings she suffered and the time her toddler-aged brother hid under a bed when he learned he’d been sold from his parents, forced people to contemplate Truth’s simple, penetrating question: “What a way is this of treating human beings?”
The book goes on to chronicle Truth’s trailblazing life. After she escaped enslavement, she toured the country, speaking to abolitionists and calling out those that didn’t include women’s rights in their fight for equality. Truth successfully sued a white man for her son’s freedom, escaped persecution from a cult, and, long before Rosa Parks took her famous bus ride, climbed aboard a whites-only streetcar. Sojourner Truth was born an enslaved person, but she died a freedom fighter. Her story deserves to be read, shared, and absorbed.
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La suma de varias atrocidades a lo largo de su vida la hicieron empezar a cuestionar el sistema y la educación que había recibido, con el cual Sojourner definía su ser. Como a muchas personas en la vida solo hasta que nos cansamos del irrespeto o de las injusticias es que iniciamos un cambio en nosotros mismos. Ese cambio la llevó a alcanzar algo que niña ni siquiera consideró, su libertad.