Journey Toward Freedom | Journey Toward Freedom

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Author: Jacqueline Bernard
First Published: 1967
Time of Work: 1797–1883
Setting: New York, Connecticut, Massachusetts, Ohio, Michigan, Indiana, Washington, D.C., Rhode Island, and Kansas
Principal Characters: Sojourner Truth, Bomefree, Ma-Ma Betts, John Neely, Peter, John Dumont, Frederick Douglass
Genres: Nonfiction, Biography
Subjects: African Americans, Social action, Abolitionists, Nineteenth century, Slavery or slaves, Preaching, Women’s rights, Biography
Locales: Connecticut, New York, Ohio, Washington, D.C., Kansas, Michigan, Massachusetts, Indiana, Rhode Island

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Jacqueline Bernard tells the story of Sojourner Truth’s life in Journey Toward Freedom: The Story of Sojourner Truth. This traditional birth-to-death biography is organized chronologically. The book is divided into two parts that correspond to the stages of Truth’s life, though Bernard does not mark these sections.

In chapters 1 through 15, the first section, Bernard tells of how Truth rose from slavery. Truth was born a slave in 1797, in Ulster County, New York. Her master named her Belle. Some of the people who owned Truth were relatively...

Journey Toward Freedom | Journey Toward Freedom

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Form and Content

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