Links
Speeches
- Keeping the Thing Going While Things Are Stirring: A speech delivered by Sojourner Truth in 1867.
- Sojourner Truth’s famous and controversial “Ain’t I A Woman Speech” as transcribed by Frances Gage.
Biography
- A short biography of Sojourner Truth by the Women in History corporation.
- A digital transcription of Sojourner Truth’s memoir and spiritual autobiography, “The Narrative of Sojourner Truth”
Other Resources
- Historic Northampton
- Northampton Association of Education and Industry, utopian community in Florence, 1842-46. Site contains primary documents, lesson plans and more.
- History of silk industry in Florence Smith College.
- Basil Dorsey’s history (a freed slave and his house in Florence, MA).
- Thomas H. Jones was a fugitive slave and anti-slavery lecturer who lived on Nonotuck Street in Florence from 1854-1859, overlapping with Sojourner Truth for three years.
- The Samuel J. May Anti-Slavery Collection at Cornell.
- Abolition, Anti-Slavery Movements, and the Rise of the Sectional Controversy.
- American Women’s History: A Research Guide.
- Timeline of African American History.
- A bibliography on the underground railroad from the University of Maryland.
- Paths Toward Freedom: A Bibliography of the Underground Railroad
The New York Historical Society’s site devoted to the Harriet Tubman home. - David Ruggles Center.
- Robert Romer, “Slavery in the Connecticut Valley.”
- A lovely writing about Sojourner’s life.
