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  • The Narrative of Sojourner Truth

    by Sojourner Truth ...
    From slavery to liberation to life as an abolitionist, feminist, orator, and preacher—the autobiography of a woman who refused to be anything but free.Born into slavery in New York around 1797, then sold from master to master, Sojourner Truth spent her formative years witnessing the cruelty inherent in the institution of slavery. Escaping to a friendly household before emancipation, she learned ... Read more

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  • The Narrative of Sojourner Truth

    by OLIVE GILBERT, SOJOURNER TRUTH ...
    Truth's narrative begins with her birth as Isabella Baumfree in New York around 1797. She describes her early experiences in slavery, the brutal conditions she faced, and her eventual escape to freedom. After gaining her freedom, Truth changed her name to Sojourner Truth, reflecting her mission to travel and speak out against the injustices of slavery and to advocate for the rights of women. Her ... Read more

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  • The Narrative of Sojourner Truth

    by Sojourner Truth, Olive Gilbert ...
    THE subject of this biography, SOJOURNER TRUTH, as she now calls herself-but whose name, originally, was Isabella-was born, as near as she can now calculate, between the years 1797 and 1800. She was the daughter of James and Betsey, slaves of one Colonel Ardinburgh, Hurley, Ulster County, New York. ... Read more

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  • The Narrative of Sojourner Truth

    by Gilbert, Olive ...
    Books for All Kinds of Readers. ReadHowYouWant offers the widest selection of on-demand, accessible format editions on the market today. Our 7 different sizes of EasyRead™ are optimized by increasing the font size and spacing between the words and the letters. We partner with leading publishers around the globe. Our goal is to have accessible editions simultaneously released with publishers' new ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

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    Sojourner Truth: Icon Black Lives Matter Series

    by Olive Gilbert ...
    Narrated by Geoffrey Giuliano, The Ark ...

    Unabridged

    4 hours 17 min

    The Icon Black Lives Matter Series“I am not going to die, I'm going home like a shooting star."Sojourner Truth was an American abolitionist and women's rights activist. Truth was born into slavery in Swartekill, New York, but escaped with her infant daughter to freedom in 1826. After going to court to recover her son in 1828, she became the first black woman to win such a case against a white man ... Read more

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    The Narrative of Sojourner Truth

    A Biography of a Slave Woman

    by Olive Gilbert ...
    Narrated by Bobbie Frohman ...

    Unabridged

    3 hours 49 min

    The Narrative of Sojourner Truth is a poignant biography as told to Olive Gilbert by Isabella Bomefree—a slave born at the end of the eighteenth century who later took the name of Sojourner Truth. She recounts the harshness of life under slavery, as well as what transpired after she won her freedom, when she became a vociferous abolitionist, a role for which she has been long remembered and ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

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    The Narrative of Sojourner Truth (UNABRIDGED)

    by Olive GILBERT ...
    Narrated by Brielle Lennon ...

    Unabridged

    3 hours 51 min

    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 ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

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    Up from Slavery

    by Booker T. Washington ...
    Narrated by Noah Waterman ...

    Unabridged

    6 hours 8 min

    Booker T. Washington fought his way out of slavery to become an educator, statesman, political shaper, and proponent of the “do it yourself” idea. In his autobiography, he describes his early life as a slave on a Virginia plantation, his steady rise during the Civil War, his struggle for education, his schooling at the Hampton Institute, and his years as founder and president of the Tuskegee ... Read more

    $19.95 USD

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    Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl

    by Harriet Jacobs ...
    Narrated by Lisa Reneé Pitts ...

    Unabridged

    9 hours 1 min

    Published in 1861, Harriet Jacobs's Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl is an autobiographical account of the author's experiences as a slave in nineteenth-century North Carolina, from her relatively happy childhood to the brutality she experienced as a teenager and young woman to her eventual escape to the North. One of the few slave narratives written by a woman, Jacobs's work deals frankly ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

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    Powers

    by Ursula K. Le Guin ...
    Narrated by Andy Paris ...
    Series series Annals of the Western Shore

    Unabridged

    13 hours 38 min

    Winner of the Nebula Award for Best Novel: A young man tries to come to grips with his strange gifts as he sets out on a dangerous journey.Brought up in comfort as a house slave for a great family, young Gavir can recall the page of a book after seeing it once. Sometimes he even “remembers” things that are going to happen in the future—a power Gav cannot explain or control, and one that his ... Read more

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    Beauty

    A Retelling of the Story of Beauty and the Beast

    by Robin McKinley ...
    Narrated by Charlotte Parry ...

    Unabridged

    7 hours 5 min

    The New York Times–bestselling author of Rose Daughter reimagines the classic French fairy tale of Beauty and the Beast.I was the youngest of three daughters. Our literal-minded mother named us Grace, Hope, and Honour. … My father still likes to tell the story of how I acquired my odd nickname: I had come to him for further information when I first discovered that our names meant something besides ... Read more

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    The Hero and the Crown

    by Robin McKinley ...
    Narrated by Roslyn Alexander ...

    Unabridged

    10 hours 50 min

    An outcast princess must earn her birthright as a hero of the realm—in this “utterly engrossing” Newbery Medal–winning fantasy (The New York Times).Aerin is an outcast in her own father’s court, daughter of the foreign woman who, it was rumored, was a witch, and enchanted the king to marry her.She makes friends with her father’s lame, retired warhorse, Talat, and discovers an old, overlooked, and ... Read more

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