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Title: Sojourner Truth: A Life, a Symbol by Nell Irvin Painter ISBN: 0-393-31708-0 Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company Pub. Date: 01 October, 1997 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $15.95

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Average Customer Rating: 4.5 (6 reviews)

Rating: 5
Summary: An incredible biography
Comment: Painter's biography is excellent. She puts Truth in perspective with the challenges of her time. She sheds light on complicated relationships with noteable Abolishionists and with her own children. This book clearly presents the difficult life of one incredible woman who struggles to do her part to free all slaves, gain respect as a woman and be accepted as a human being.

Rating: 5
Summary: SOJOURNER TRUTH A LIFE A SYMBOL
Comment: I THINK THIS BOOK IS VERY EDUCATIONAL. I REALLY ENJOYED READING IT. I LEARNED A LOT ABOUT TRUTH. PAINTER WAS A WONDERFUL WRITER. SHE DESCRIBED EVERYTHING TO THE MAX.

Rating: 5
Summary: A Nearly Perfect Book
Comment: When I read a book, I want to get a lot out of it, as I enjoy the reading of it. On the second point: this book is engagingly written. The author questions her own motives and information as she constructs a biography of a difficult life to document. We see Painter confront the challenges of performing biography. I found it a compelling literary device. On the first point, the book mixes biography with history and feminist criticism. This interdisciplinary focus produces a highly inviting book. Among other topics, we find out about the details of slavery in the North, 19th century religious cults, and the ways in which feminists and abolitionists of the time exploited Truth for their own gain, as well as how this appropriation of "Truth" continues to the present. On this point, we learn much about contemporary feminism and culture and its need for heroes-especially African American female heroes.

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