Sojourner Truth

(1797-1883)
 Born in new York.
 She grew speaking Dutch.
 She scape from slavery in 1827.
 she was christened for the mystical voices and vision.
 Lecturing
 Singing gospel song
 And preaching abolitionism through many states over three
decades.
 She was encourage by Elizabeth Cady Stanton.
 Harriet Beecher
Stowe
(1811-1896)
 Who wrote the novel uncle tom’s cabin Or life among lowly.
Was the popular American book in the 19th century.
 Authors are:
Georges Sand in France
Heinrich Heine in Germany
Ivan Turgenev in Russia.
 The novel Uncle Tom’s Cabin is a sentimental novel.
 Harriet Ann Jacobs
(1818-1896)
 Born a slave in north Carolina.
 Died on March 7, 1897.
 Was taught to read and write by her mistress.
 Lover Name: Samuel Sawyer- a white lawyer and U.S
representative.
 Became friend with Amy post, a Quaker feminist
abolitionist.
 Incidents in the life of a slave girl.
 Harriet Wilson
(1807-1870)

 She was the first African-American to publish a

novel in the united state.
 Our Nig, or sketches from the life of a Free
Black, in two-story white house, North.
 Frederick Douglass
(1871-1895)
 Famous black American anti-slavery leader and orator of the era.
 Born a slave in Maryland plantation.
 In 1845, published his narrative of the life of Frederick Douglass an
American slave (second version, revise in 1892).