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Very Good. Size: 6x1x9; stated 1st edition/1st printing with full number line, hardcover with dust jacket, tight, pages clear and bright, shelf and edge wear, corners bumped, previous owners name stamped on flyleaf, packaged in cardboard box for shipment, tracking on U.S. orders.
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Very Good in Good jacket. R6-A first edition (stated with complete numberline) hardcover book SIGNED and inscribed by Nell Painter on the half-title page in very good condition in good dust jacket that is mylar protected. Dust jacket has wrinkling, chipping and crease on the edges and corners, light soiled patches on some bottom edges, scatteerd scratches, rubbing, light wrinkling and scuffing, light tanning and shelf wear. Book has some bumped corners and light edgewear, some wrinkling on the spine edges, some scattered stains on the page edges, light discoloration and shelf wear. 9.5"x6.5", 370 pages. Satisfaction Guaranteed. Sojourner Truth was an American abolitionist of New York Dutch heritage and activist for African-American civil rights, women's rights, and alcohol temperance. 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. She gave herself the name Sojourner Truth in 1843 after she became convinced that God had called her to leave the city and go into the countryside "testifying to the hope that was in her." Her best-known speech was delivered extemporaneously, in 1851, at the Ohio Women's Rights Convention in Akron, Ohio. The speech became widely known during the Civil War by the title "Ain't I a Woman? ", a variation of the original speech that was published in 1863 as being spoken in a stereotypical Black dialect, then more commonly spoken in the South. Sojourner Truth, however, was from New York and grew up speaking Dutch as her first language. During the Civil War, Truth helped recruit black troops for the Union Army; after the war, she tried unsuccessfully to secure land grants from the federal government for formerly enslaved people (summarized as the promise of "forty acres and a mule"). She continued to fight on behalf of women and African Americans until her death. As her biographer Nell Irvin Painter wrote, "At a time when most Americans thought of slaves as male and women as white, Truth embodied a fact that still bears repeating: Among the blacks are women; among the women, there are blacks." A memorial bust of Truth was unveiled in 2009 in Emancipation Hall in the U.S. Capitol Visitor Center. She is the first African American woman to have a statue in the Capitol building. In 2014, Truth was included in Smithsonian magazine's list of the "100 Most Significant Americans of All Time."
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Fine in fine dust jacket. Signed by author. Signed by Award Nominated Author Nell Irvin Painter. Sewn binding. Cloth over boards. 370 p. Audience: General/trade. A Fine, as New, copy in a Fine, as New, dust jacket; a tight and clean copy that was bought new, and never read; and still in pristine condition. First Edition-First Printing with a full number line that begins with a 1. Signed, on the Half-Title page by Author Nell Irvin Painter at an Autor event in Princeton, New jersey, shortly after publication in 1996. This enlightening, monumental biography recounts the life of one of the most important Black women of the nineteenth century, who was born into slavery, but died a legend. Rest assured; this collectible copy is well protected in an archival Mylar copy; and will be very carefully packaged with protective material; and will be shipped in a new box. We always treat all of our books, and book buyers with the utmost respect.
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Fair. Pages include notes, underlining, or highlighting. May have some shelf-wear due to normal use. Your purchase funds free job training and education in the greater Seattle area. Thank you for supporting Goodwill's nonprofit mission!