{"product_id":"22888-truth-sojourner-narrative-of-sojourner-truth-drawn-from-her-book-of-life-expanded-edition-of-her-autobiography-with-abolitionist-provenance","title":"Truth, Sojourner. (circa 1797-1883) \"Narrative of Sojourner Truth...Drawn from her 'Book of Life'\" - Expanded edition of her autobiography, with abolitionist provenance","description":"\u003cdiv style=\"\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"\"\u003e\n\u003cspan style=\"\"\u003e2 parts in 1 vol., 8vo (190 x 120 mm). Half-title, engraved frontispiece portrait; offsetting to frontis., scattered thumbsoiling and toning, newspaper clipping of her obituary laid down on rear endpapers with accompanying browning and old adhesive; modern \u003c\/span\u003ereproduction carte-de-visite of Sojourner Truth laid down on front paste-down. Publisher's black cloth with gilt portrait of Truth to upper cover; heavily restored and worn, retaining most of the original covers, and part of the spine.  \u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"\"\u003e\u003cbr style=\"\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"\"\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"\"\u003eThe present work, a revised and expanded biography of the noted abolitionist Sojourner Truth, belonged to George Gage, a prominent citizen in Reconstruction-era Beaufort, South Carolina. Gage was a civil engineer born in McConnelsville, Ohio who moved to Beaufort to work as a surveyor. While working on the railroad construction project from Augusta to Beaufort, he developed an interest in vocational training for the formerly enslaved. His wife, Sarah Marshall Ely, was an abolitionist and social activist who taught in the newly established segregated Freedmen's Bureau schools (Duke University Libraries).\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"\"\u003eThe gift inscription on the front paste-down, seemingly also in Gage's hand, states: \"Geo. Gage, from Uncle John and Aunt Portia. January 1876.\" Uncle John and Aunt Portia's identities are unknown, although intriguingly, the use of the titles \"Uncle\" and \"Aunt\" indicates the book may have been a gift from members of the African American community that the Gages worked with.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"\"\u003e\u003ca class=\"expand-bar\" style=\"\"\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"lot-detail_additional--desc expandable-init\" style=\"\"\u003e\u003cbr style=\"\"\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Schubertiade Music and Arts","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46093828391071,"sku":"22888","price":3000.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0512\/4826\/7423\/files\/Sojourner_Truth_Autobiography_22888b.png?v=1722190647","url":"https:\/\/www.schubertiademusic.com\/products\/22888-truth-sojourner-narrative-of-sojourner-truth-drawn-from-her-book-of-life-expanded-edition-of-her-autobiography-with-abolitionist-provenance","provider":"Schubertiade Music and Arts","version":"1.0","type":"link"}