01116cam a2200265 4500 607503064 TxAuBib 20030729120000.0 ||||||s2003||||||||||||||||||||||||und|u 9780743244442 0743244443 (OCoLC)52214727 TxAuBib Sheehan, Jacqueline. Truth. New York, NY : Simon & Schuster, 2003. 294p. New York slave Isabella Baumfree took the name Sojourner Truth after she won her freedom, found religion, and began speaking out against slavery and for women's rights. The novel infuses historical atrocities of the 1800s with psychological speculation of who Sojourner Truth really was, beyond her social and political persona. 20030729. Truth, Sojourner (Isabella Baumfree), 1797?--1883 Fiction. Slavery Fiction United States. Women's rights 19th century Fiction. Women activists African American 19th century Fiction. TXMIT