Honoring Truth: The Sojourner Statue Story
- ISBN-10
- 1937146200
- ISBN-13
- 9781937146207
- Category
- African American women
- Pages
- 150
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2012-09-25
- Author
- Sojourner Truth Statue Committee
Description
This book has been written to tell the story of the Sojourner Truth Statue Committee for the commemoration of the Tenth Anniversary of the Sojourner Truth Statue completed and dedicated in Northampton on October 6, 2002. The title “Honoring Truth: The Sojourner Statue Story†can be understood in different ways. Honoring Truth was the primary goal of the Sojourner Truth Statue Committee. We wanted to honor this amazing woman who was born into slavery in Hurley, New York around 1797, who at an early age was separated from her mother and father and sold again and again until purchased by two Quakers who set her free. In 1844 Truth came to Northampton to live here in a cooperative utopian community called the Northampton Association for Education and Industry where she met some of the major abolitionists and reformers in our country: Samuel Hill, George Benson, William Lloyd Garrison, Frederick Douglass, and David Ruggles. It was here that she was a visible community figure for more than a decade and here that she first came to understand the relation between fighting slavery and fighting for women's rights and became an early pioneer of both movements in America. For all these reasons we wanted a statue to her, that all of us and our children and children's children might know who she was, and that she was here.
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