Freshman Preceptorial: A Genealogy of Freedom

Sojourner Truth in Context:
Library and Internet Resources on Truth and Her Times

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Africana: the encyclopedia of the African-American experience. Kwame Anthony Appiah, Editor. New York : Basic Civitas Books, c1999.

CALL NUMBER: Ref DT14 .A37435 1999

Civil rights in the United States. Waldo E. Martin, Jr., Editor. New York : Macmillan Reference USA, c2000.

CALL NUMBER: Ref E184.A1 C47 2000 v 1-2

"Truth, Sojourner" Encyclopædia Britannica Online. [ Online ] <http://search.eb.com/bol/topic ?eu=75492 &sctn=1>
[Accessed April 2 2001].

Available to members of the Union community via Britannica Online, this article contains a  biographical essay as well as links to discussions of her beliefs within the context of the women's rights movement, and abolitionism.

Encyclopedia of African-American civil rights : from emancipation to the present.  Charles D. Lowery,  Editor. New York : Greenwood Press, c1992.

CALL NUMBER: Ref E185.61 .E54 1992

Encyclopedia of African-American culture and history. Jack Salzman, Editor. New York : Macmillan Library Reference, c1996, 2001.

CALL NUMBER: Ref E185 .E54 1996  v 1-5
CALL NUMBER: Ref E185 .E54 2001 suppl.

Encyclopedia of Women in American Politics.  Jeffrey D Schultz, Editor. Phoenix : Oryx Press, 1999.

CALL NUMBER: Ref HQ1236.5.U6 E53 1999

Encyclopedia of Women's History in America.  Kathryn Cullen-DuPont, Editor. New York : Facts on File, c1996.

CALL NUMBER: Ref HQ1410 .C85 1996

From suffrage to the Senate : an encyclopedia of American women in politics. Suzanne O'Dea Schenken, Editor. Santa Barbara : ABC-CLIO, c1999.

CALL NUMBER: Ref HQ1236.5.U6 S32 1999  v 1-2

"Narrative of Sojourner Truth"; a bonds-woman 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." [ Online ] Available: [http://memory.loc.gov/] (June 4, 2001)

Women's studies encyclopedia. Helen Tierney, Editor. Westport, Connecticut: Greenwood Press, 1999.

CALL NUMBER: Ref HQ1115 .W645 1999  v 1-3

Link to e-text of The Narrative of Sojourner Truth, by Sojourner Truth

• 19th Century American Women Writers Web
  The 19CWWW E-text Library  includes speeches, an address to the First Annual Meeting of the American Equal Rights Association.

Address: http://www.unl.edu/legacy/19cwww/books/elibe/truth/home.htm

• About Sojourner Truth
  As part of a comprehensive research guide on Women's History via about.com, including bio, links, and print  bibliography references.

  Address: http://womenshistory.about.com/homework/womenshistory/library/bio/bltruth.htm

• Frances D. Gage: Reminiscences of Sojourner Truth
  Eyewitness account of Truth's "Ain't I a Woman" speech by feminist Frances D. Gage.  Printed exactly as it occurs in volume 1 of History of Woman Suffrage. Part of the larger Women in American History, by Encyclopædia Britannica.

  Address: http://women.eb.com/women/pri/Q00160.html

• History of the American Suffragist Movement
  Selected Documents from the Appendix of the History of the American Suffragist Movement, including Sojourner Truth's Speech to the Akron Convention, and The Declaration of Sentiments from the Seneca Falls Convention.

Address: http://www.suffragist.com/docs.htm

• National Women's Hall of Fame
  Links to detailed biographies. News and Events, Hall of Fame history, etc.

Address: http://www.greatwomen.org/the_hall.php

• Sojourner Truth Institute
   Established as an affiliate of the Battle Creek Community Foundation to "expand the historical and biographical knowledge of her life's work and carry on her mission by teaching, demonstrating and promoting projects that accentuate the ideals and principles for which she stood."

Address: http://www.sojournertruth.org/

• Votes for Women: 1850-1920
  From the American Memory Project - The Library of Congress has extensive and varied resources related to the campaign for woman suffrage in the United States. This selection of 38 pictures includes portraits of many individuals who have been frequently requested.

Address: http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/vfwhtml/vfwhome.html

• WIC - Womens History in America
  Presented by the Women's International Center - Excerpted from Compton's Interactive Encyclopedia.

  Address: http://www.wic.org/misc/history.htm

• Women's Rights Movement Links
  Via The National Women's History Project.

Address: http://www.nwhp.org/tlp/links/links.html#rights

• African-American Women and The Chicago World's Fair
  Documents answer the question "How Did African-American Women Define Their Citizenship at the Chicago World's Fair in 1893?

Address: http://womhist.binghamton.edu/ibw/doclist.htm

• American Slave Narratives
  "This web site provides an opportunity to read a sample of slave narratives, and to see some of the photographs taken at the time of the interviews. The entire collection of narratives can be found in George P. Rawick, ed., The American Slave: A Composite Autobiography (Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 1972-79)."

  Address: http://xroads.virginia.edu/~HYPER/wpa/wpahome.html

• Documenting the American South (DAS)
  DAS is a database sponsored by the Main Library System at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, providing digitized primary materials that offer Southern perspectives on American history and culture. The current database includes three digitization projects: slave narratives, first-person narratives, and Southern literature.

  Address: http://metalab.unc.edu/docsouth/

• Slavery Resources
  The site includes slavery bibliographies, full-text, online excerpts from 46 slave narratives (organized into a variety of categories, including: capture and enslavement, the Middle passage, arrival in the new world, living conditions, children, family, religion, punishment, resistance, flight, and emancipation), oral histories, and links to map sites, census data, and a slave trade demographic simulation. Maintained by Steven Mintz, Dept, of History, University of Houston.

  Address: http://bentley.uh.edu/mintz/slave.htm

• The African-American Mosaic
  A Library of Congress Resource Guide for the Study of Black History and Culture. The exhibit covers four areas --Colonization, Abolition, Migrations, and the WPA--of the many covered by the Mosaic. Extensive text as well as reproductions of documents and photos.

  Address: http://lcweb.loc.gov/exhibits/african/intro.html

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• Multicultural Resources: African-American/Africana Studies
  A compilation of library and Internet resources--reference books, statistical sources, online databases, government documents, and Web sites--suited for research into African-American and Africana Studies subject areas. Maintained by Schaffer Library, Union College.

  Address: http://www.union.edu/PUBLIC/LIBRARY/guide/mcafric.html

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• Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture
  A national research library - branch of the New York Public Library - devoted to collecting, preserving and providing access to resources documenting the experiences of peoples of African descent throughout the world. Selected Internet Sources of information on Africa and the African Diaspora.

  Address: http://www.nypl.org/research/sc/sc.html

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Last revised on June 04, 2001