![]() ![]() ![]() The Modern Library Torchbearers series features women who wrote on their own terms, with boldness, creativity, and a spirit of resistance. THE subject of this biography, SOJOURNER TRUTH, as she now calls herself-but whose name, originally, was Isabella-was born. ![]() Equal parts brave and searing, Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl is a triumph of American literature. Resolutely addressing women readers, rather than men, Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl seeks to make white women understand how the threat of sexual violence shapes the lives of enslaved Black women and children. Truth was born into slavery in Swartekill, New York. Rhetorical Analysis Of Ain T I A Woman By Sojourner Truth. Sojourner Truth was an American abolitionist of New York Dutch heritage and a womens rights activist. In clear and unshrinking prose, Harriet Jacobs-writing under the pseudonym Linda Brent-relates the story of her girlhood and adolescence as a slave in North Carolina and her eventual escape: a bildungsroman set in the complex terrain of a chauvinist, white supremacist society. Summary essays on autobiographies like A Narrative Of A Revolutionary Soldier or Superman. remodeled the forms of the black slave narrative and the white female sentimental novel to create a new literary form-a narrative at once black and female.” -Henry Louis Gates, Jr., The New York Times The unflinching nineteenth-century autobiography that broke the silence on the psychosexual exploitation of Black women-with an introduction by Tiya Miles, author of All That She Carried and National Book Award finalist ![]()
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