“I did not run off, for I thought that wicked, but I walked off, believing that to be all right.” In 1843 she renamed herself “Truth” for God, and “Sojourner” because she intended to “travel up and down the land,” preaching and testifying. After a number of new masters, and four children later, she escaped her last servitude shortly before the mandated New York State emancipation took effect on July 4, 1827. Named “Isabelle” by her parents, she developed deep religious feelings from her mother, from whom she was separated at age nine. Evangelist, abolitionist, reformer and women’s rights advocate Sojourner Truth was born to James and Elizabeth Baumfree, both slaves of a Dutch family in Ulster County, New York. Her evangelic fervor and plain wit helped to advance the causes of emancipation and women’s rights” (Blockson 29). “A legend in her own time, Truth’s indomitable will has won her a permanent place in American History. In very good condition, contemporary ownership inscription on front free endpaper. Octavo, original cloth, gilt titles to the spine, illustrated frontispiece portrait of Truth. Rare first revised edition of the book that brought Truth’s remarkable story to the world and the first edition of The Book of Life. Narrative of Sojourner Truth, A Northern Slave, Emancipated From Bodily Servitude by the State of New York, in 1828 and The Book of Life.
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