Research Catalog

Details

Additional authors

1. Titus, Frances W.
2. Garrison, William Lloyd, 1805-1879.

Description

1. 324 p. : port., facsims.; 20 cm.

Donor/Sponsor

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

Alternative title

1. Sojourner Truth's narrative and book of life
2. Book of life

Subject

1. Enslaved persons > New York (State) > Ulster County > Biography
2. Enslaved persons > New York (State) > Biography
3. Slavery > New York (State) > History
4. Errata slips (Printing)
5. Slavery > New York (State) > Ulster County > History
6. African Americans > Biography
7. Black author
8. Truth, Sojourner, 1799-1883 > Portraits
9. Abolitionists > United States > Biography
10. Antislavery movements > United States
11. Social reformers > United States > Biography
12. Inscriptions (Provenance)
13. African American abolitionists > Biography
14. African American women > Biography

Genre/Form

1. Errata slips (Printing).
2. Inscriptions (Provenance)

Call number

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

Note

1. "Narrative of Sojourner Truth" written for Sojourner Truth by Olive Gilbert. "Book of life" written for Sojourner Truth by Frances W. Titus.
2. "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.
3. Preface by William Lloyd Garrison.
4. "The first 128 pages of this work are reprinted from stereotype plates, made in 1850 ... "--Errata slip at front of title page.
5. "Book of life" has its own title page, p. [127].
6. "Appendix"--p. 321-324, includes names of donors.

Indexed in (note)

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

Provenance (note)

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

Author

1. Gilbert, Olive.

Title

1. 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

1. Boston : Published for the author, 1875.

Indexed in:

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

Provenance

1. 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

1. Black author.

Added author

1. Titus, Frances W.
2. Garrison, William Lloyd, 1805-1879.
3. Schomburg, Arthur Alfonso, 1874-1938, former owner, inscriber.

Added title

1. Book of life

Research call number

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