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Sojourner Truth
Books
Painter, Nell Irvin. Sojourner Truth: A Life, A Symbol. New York: W.W. Norton & Co., 1996.
This title provides a thoroughly researched biography of Sojourner Truth. Truth created very little in primary documents
for historians to use, so Painter relies on other sources to give us Truth’s story. Chapter 26 provides a historiography.
Coda: The Life of a Symbol is a chapter that describes the trouble we all have in separating myth from
reality. Painter’s work corrects past misinformation about Truth. Read this book first before examining
any other resources about Sojourner Truth.
Websites
CivilWar@Smithsonian
The CivilWar@Smithsonian website highlights Smithsonian items pertaining to
Civil War history. This website briefly covers Truth’s involvement in the abolition
movement. Below is a link to a photograph of Truth:
Sojourner Truth Memorial Statue Project - Florence Massachusetts
This website is mainly about the Sojourner Truth Memorial Statue Project in Florence, Massachusetts. Yet there is some
useful information in this site. The Who was Sojourner Truth? page contains some information on her time in Massachusetts.
The Resources page contains a listing of books and articles.
Women in History - Sojourner Truth biography
Here’s a good starting point for learning about Sojourner Truth. This page contains a brief biography and related websites. The Lakewood OH Public Library is
the author of this biography.
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