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Truth, Sojourner (pseudonym) (1797 - 1883)

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Short name	Truth, Sojourner (pseudonym)
VIAF	http://viaf.org/viaf/74657903
First name	Isabella
Birth name	Baumfree
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Date of birth	1797
Date of death	1883
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Sex	Female
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Lived in	United States
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Randall Studio, portrait of Sojourner Truth, ca. 1870.

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Truth, Sojourner (pseudonym) was ...

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Place(s) of Residence	United States

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Ain't I a woman? (1851)	0	0
Narrative of Sojourner Truth; a bondswoman 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 (1878)	0	0

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Circulations of Truth, Sojourner (pseudonym), the person (for circulations of her works, see under each individual Work)

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Receptions of Truth, Sojourner (pseudonym), the person

For receptions of her works, see under each individual Work.

Title	Author	Date	Type
Sojourner Truth: a remarkable woman	UNKNOWN [author, various, name and sex unknown]	1869	is biography of
Randall Studio, portrait of Sojourner Truth, ca. 1870.		1870	is portrait of
Sojourner Truth	UNKNOWN [author, various, name and sex unknown]	1871	comments on person

Cf. - Brown, Hallie Quinn: Homespun heriones, 1926 (see online text in The Digital Schomburg).