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• Winner of <DIV>Winner of the inaugural 2010 OAH Darlene Clark Hine Award. A <I>Choice</I> Outstanding Academic Title, 2010. Co-winner of the 2009 Letitia Woods 2010
• Winner of <DIV>Winner of the inaugural 2010 OAH Darlene Clark Hine Award. A <I>Choice</I> Outstanding Academic Title, 2010. Co-winner of the 2009 Letitia Woods Brown Memorial Book Award.</DIV> 2010

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This biography is admirable in its thoroughness and in Washington's commitment to her subject and is well worth consulting. --Publishers Weekly This scholarly biography, meticulously researched ... is destined to be the definitive study for a generation. Highly recommended. -- Choice An interesting and persuasive reading. By forcing us to give up a sanitized, desexualized picture of Truth ... Washington does us a great service--one of many performed by this exciting and comprehensive book. --Women's Review of Books [A] wonderfully detailed and insightful account of Sojourner Truth's life. --The Journal of American History

[A] wonderfully detailed and insightful account of Sojourner Truth's life. Journal of American History This scholarly biography, meticulously researched ... is destined to be the definitive study for a generation. Highly recommended. Choice An interesting and persuasive reading. By forcing us to give up a sanitized, desexualized picture of Truth ... Washington does us a great serviceo one of many performed by this exciting and comprehensive book. Women's Review of Books A solid, welcome addition to the literature on antebellum women, blacks, religion, and reform. This book will be around for a very long time. Paul E. Johnson, co-author of The Early American Republic, 1789-1829 In this beautifully rendered account, Margaret Washington wields the extraordinary life of a single black woman to illuminate and evaluate the dynamic cultural and political landscape of nineteenth-century America. Engaging enslavement and emancipation, religious perfectionism and social activism, civil war and civil rights, Sojourner Truth's America captures a radical vision of a better world and the challenges to achieving it. Nancy A. Hewitt, author of Southern Discomfort: Women's Activism in Tampa, Florida, 1880s-1920s In a tour de force of extraordinary research, powerful writing, and compassionate historical reconstruction, Margaret Washington has restored to us the full life of the woman later known as Sojourner Truth. I particularly appreciated the careful, original, illuminating account of Truth's early years as a Dutch-African slave. Women's history, the history of slavery, and U.S. history in general are the richer for this important book. Ellen Carol DuBois, co-author of Through Women's Eyes: An American History with Documents

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Margaret Washington is a professor of history at Cornell University. She is the author of the award-winning book ""A Peculiar People"": Slave Religion and Community-culture among the Gullahs and the editor of The Narrative of Sojourner Truth.

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