The Narrative of Sojourner Truth (version 2) - Free Audiobook

Olive Gilbert Sojourner Truth

Length: 31 chapters

Language: English

Genres: Non-fiction Biography & Autobiography History

Narrators:Holly Jenson

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1. Her Birth and Parentage
2. Accommodations
3. Her Brothers and Sisters
4. Her Religious Instruction
5. The Auction
6. Death of Mau-Mau Bett
7. Last Days of Bomefree
8. Death of Bomefree
9. Commencement of Isabella's Trials in Life
10. Trials Continued
11. Her Standing With Her New Master and Mistress
12. Isabella's Marriage
13. Isabella as a Mother
14. Slaveholder's Promises
15. Her Escape
16. Illegal Sale of her Son
17. It Is Often Darkest Just Before Dawn
18. Death of Mrs. Eliza Fowler
19. Isabella's Religious Experience
20. New Trials
21. Finding a Brother and Sister
22. Gleanings
23. The Matthias Delusion
24. Fasting
25. The Cause of Her Leaving the City
26. The Consequences of Refusing a Traveller a Night's Lodging
27. Some of Her Views and Reasonings
28. The Second Advent Doctrines
29. Another Camp Meeting
30. Her Last Interview With Her Master
31. Certificates of Character

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Sojourner Truth (born Isabella Baumfree) was born into slavery in 1797 (or thereabouts) in Swartekill, Ulster County, New York. This narrative, as told by Sojourner Truth to her friend Olive Gilbert, recounts to the best of her recollection what she and her family endured while they were the legal property of other human beings. These life experiences served as the catalysts for her becoming, in her later years, an outspoken abolutionist and women's rights activist. Her forgiving attitude toward those who once treated her and her loved ones with such cruelty is an example for all who would aspire to heal and move on from traumatizing life experiences. The voice of Olive Gilbert comes through in this narrative, and together, she and Sojourner Truth build a compelling case against slavery. - Summary by Holly Jenson