Author: Jean D. Worden
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Church records and registers
Languages : en
Pages : 390
Book Description
Wawarsing Reformed Dutch Church, Ulster County, New York, 1745-1883, New Prospect Reformed Dutch Church, Ulster County, New York, 1816-1886, Bloomington Dutch Reformed Church, Ulster County, New York, 1796-1859, Newburgh Circuit, Methodist Episcopal Church, 1789-1834
Author: Jean D. Worden
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Church records and registers
Languages : en
Pages : 390
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Church records and registers
Languages : en
Pages : 390
Book Description
Sojourner Truth's America
Author: Margaret Washington
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
ISBN: 0252093747
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 522
Book Description
This fascinating biography tells the story of nineteenth-century America through the life of one of its most charismatic and influential characters: Sojourner Truth. In an in-depth account of this amazing activist, Margaret Washington unravels Sojourner Truth's world within the broader panorama of African American slavery and the nation's most significant reform era. Born into bondage among the Hudson Valley Dutch in Ulster County, New York, Isabella was sold several times, married, and bore five children before fleeing in 1826 with her infant daughter one year before New York slavery was abolished. In 1829, she moved to New York City, where she worked as a domestic, preached, joined a religious commune, and then in 1843 had an epiphany. Changing her name to Sojourner Truth, she began traveling the country as a champion of the downtrodden and a spokeswoman for equality by promoting Christianity, abolitionism, and women's rights. Gifted in verbal eloquence, wit, and biblical knowledge, Sojourner Truth possessed an earthy, imaginative, homespun personality that won her many friends and admirers and made her one of the most popular and quoted reformers of her times. Washington's biography of this remarkable figure considers many facets of Sojourner Truth's life to explain how she became one of the greatest activists in American history, including her African and Dutch religious heritage; her experiences of slavery within contexts of labor, domesticity, and patriarchy; and her profoundly personal sense of justice and intuitive integrity. Organized chronologically into three distinct eras of Truth's life, Sojourner Truth's America examines the complex dynamics of her times, beginning with the transnational contours of her spirituality and early life as Isabella and her embroilments in legal controversy. Truth's awakening during nineteenth-century America's progressive surge then propelled her ascendancy as a rousing preacher and political orator despite her inability to read and write. Throughout the book, Washington explores Truth's passionate commitment to family and community, including her vision for a beloved community that extended beyond race, gender, and socioeconomic condition and embraced a common humanity. For Sojourner Truth, the significant model for such communalism was a primitive, prophetic Christianity. Illustrated with dozens of images of Truth and her contemporaries, Sojourner Truth's America draws a delicate and compelling balance between Sojourner Truth's personal motivations and the influences of her historical context. Washington provides important insights into the turbulent cultural and political climate of the age while also separating the many myths from the facts concerning this legendary American figure.
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
ISBN: 0252093747
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 522
Book Description
This fascinating biography tells the story of nineteenth-century America through the life of one of its most charismatic and influential characters: Sojourner Truth. In an in-depth account of this amazing activist, Margaret Washington unravels Sojourner Truth's world within the broader panorama of African American slavery and the nation's most significant reform era. Born into bondage among the Hudson Valley Dutch in Ulster County, New York, Isabella was sold several times, married, and bore five children before fleeing in 1826 with her infant daughter one year before New York slavery was abolished. In 1829, she moved to New York City, where she worked as a domestic, preached, joined a religious commune, and then in 1843 had an epiphany. Changing her name to Sojourner Truth, she began traveling the country as a champion of the downtrodden and a spokeswoman for equality by promoting Christianity, abolitionism, and women's rights. Gifted in verbal eloquence, wit, and biblical knowledge, Sojourner Truth possessed an earthy, imaginative, homespun personality that won her many friends and admirers and made her one of the most popular and quoted reformers of her times. Washington's biography of this remarkable figure considers many facets of Sojourner Truth's life to explain how she became one of the greatest activists in American history, including her African and Dutch religious heritage; her experiences of slavery within contexts of labor, domesticity, and patriarchy; and her profoundly personal sense of justice and intuitive integrity. Organized chronologically into three distinct eras of Truth's life, Sojourner Truth's America examines the complex dynamics of her times, beginning with the transnational contours of her spirituality and early life as Isabella and her embroilments in legal controversy. Truth's awakening during nineteenth-century America's progressive surge then propelled her ascendancy as a rousing preacher and political orator despite her inability to read and write. Throughout the book, Washington explores Truth's passionate commitment to family and community, including her vision for a beloved community that extended beyond race, gender, and socioeconomic condition and embraced a common humanity. For Sojourner Truth, the significant model for such communalism was a primitive, prophetic Christianity. Illustrated with dozens of images of Truth and her contemporaries, Sojourner Truth's America draws a delicate and compelling balance between Sojourner Truth's personal motivations and the influences of her historical context. Washington provides important insights into the turbulent cultural and political climate of the age while also separating the many myths from the facts concerning this legendary American figure.
The Connecticut Nutmegger
NGS Newsletter
The Hasbrouck Family in America, with European Background
Author: Kenneth Edward Hasbrouck
Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
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Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
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Deyo (Deyoe) Family
Author: Kenneth E. Hasbrouck
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780832882883
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 272
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780832882883
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 272
Book Description
Baptismal and Marriage Registers of the Old Dutch Church of Kingston, Ulster County, New York
Author: Roswell Randall Hoes
Publisher:
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Category : Baptismal records
Languages : en
Pages : 822
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Baptismal records
Languages : en
Pages : 822
Book Description
Olde Ulster; an Historical and Genealogical Magazine
Catalogue of the Officers and Alumni of Rutgers College (originally Queen's College) in New Brundswick, N.J., 1766-1916
The Hardenbergh Family
Author: Myrtle Hardenbergh Miller
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 506
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 506
Book Description