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Great Speeches by African Americans: Frederick Douglass, Sojourner Truth, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., Barack Obama, and Others (Thrift Edition)
This anthology comprises speeches by influential figures in the history of African-American culture and politics Contents include the famous "Ain't I a Woman?" speech by Sojourner Truth, Frederick Douglass' immortal "What, to the Slave, Is the Fourth of July?" Martin Luther King, Jr.,'s "I Have a Dream," Barack Obama, and many others.
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Narrative of Sojourner Truth (Dover Thrift Editions)
This inspiring memoir, first published in 1850, recounts the struggles of a distinguished African-American abolitionist and champion of women's rights. Sojourner Truth tells of her life in slavery, her self-liberation, and her travels across America in pursuit of racial and sexual equality. Essential reading for students of American history.
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Strangers and Sojourners (Children of the Last Days)
This book is an epic novel set in the rugged interior of British Columbia. It traces the lives of four generations of a family of exiles, beginning on the first day of the year 1900, and concluding with the events of the final days leading up to the Millennium..
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Sojourner Truth: Ain't I A Woman (Scholastic Biography)
This 1993 Coretta Scott King Honor Book chronicles the life of African-American Sojourner Truth, a nineteenth-century preacher, abolitionist, and activist for the rights of African Americans and women. Reprint PW. SLJ. H. .
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Sojourner Truth: A Life, a Symbol
Sojourner Truth is regarded as a radical of immense and enduring influence; yet what is remembered of her consists more of myth than of historical fact. In this blend of scholarship and sympathetic understanding, Nell Irvin Painter goes beyond the myths, words and photographs to uncover the life of a complex woman who was born into slavery and died a legend..
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Slavery on Trial: Law, Abolitionism, and Print Culture (Studies in Legal History)
America's legal consciousness was high during the era that saw the imprisonment of abolitionist editor William Lloyd Garrison, the execution of slave revolutionary Nat Turner, and the hangings of John Brown and his Harpers Ferry co-conspirators..
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Embracing the Spirit: Womanist Perspectives on Hope, Salvation, and Transformation (Bishop Henry Mcneal Turner/Sojourner Truth Series in Black Religion)
Once again, Emilie Townes brings together essays by leading womanist theologians, interweaving a concern for matters of race, gender, and class as these bear on the well-being of the African-American community. Her emphasis is not on evil and suffering, but on "hope, salvation, and transformation" for individuals and their communities..
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Just Passing Through: Notes from a Sojourner
Sojourner is an Old French word with jour--day--at its heart. It reminds us of our transience and of the inexorable passage of time. It reminds us that we do not own this world but that we are merely passing through. It reminds us that God's time is not our time.

Fans of Margaret Guenther will welcome this salty and wise collection of reflections on her life journey her childhood in Kansas City, her college days, her career, her travels, and her slow awakening to transience of all things. This writer and spiritual director looks back over the nearly eight decades of her life, tackling themes of childhood, friendship, moving, the magic of words, heaven, spirituality in cyberspace, asking the right questions, and things never to do again.

Readers of Holy Listening, On Holy Ground, My Soul in Silence Waits, At Home in the World, and The Practice of Prayer will delight in this book of fresh, humorous insights..
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Strangers and Sojourners: A History of Michigan's Keweenaw Peninsula (Great Lakes Books)
This is the story of the copper-mining communities in Michigan's Keweenaw Peninsula and of the people who created them..
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