![]() ![]() The publisher has scheduled a tour of more than 20 cities for Dr. Painter’s manuscript say that its readability and its breadth - ranging from psychological theory to an analysis of 19th-century photographs to a survey of over 100 years of writing about the former slave - will make it stand out. ![]() The last few years have witnessed a flurry of academic interest in Sojourner Truth, with two scholarly biographies and a new edition of the Narrative of Sojourner Truth, her life story that she originally dictated to a friend. ![]() She has become an icon, her words and image blazoned on T-shirts and posters.īut who was the woman behind the symbol? And why has she become so important to contemporary society?Ī book due out this month by the Princeton University historian Nell Irvin Painter - Sojourner Truth: A Life, A Symbol - tries to answer those questions. She is remembered as a 19th-century black woman who demanded recognition, who reportedly ripped open her dress at a public meeting to force white feminists to confront her humanity. Who hasn’t heard the words attributed to the former slave Sojourner Truth:"And ar’n’t I a woman?” ![]()
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