Truth — Jacqueline Sheehan

A fictional portrait of Sojourner Truth chronicles the early life of a young girl born into the brutality and hardships of slavery, from her childhood in New York, through her separation from her family and sale to one master after another, to Emancipation and her quest to rescue her son Peter, to her lifelong crusade for abolition, slave reparations, and women's rights. A first novel. 35,000 first printing.