Sojourner Truth's America

Notes

381 notes introduction 1. CDI, August 13, 1881; NSTBL, 25. In her 1850 Narrative, Sojourner’s nickname is spelled “Bell.” This spelling is used herein. 2. NASS, July 4, 1863; “Recollections of Eliza Seaman Leggett,” Eliza Seaman Leggett Family Papers, vol. 8, DPL; Parker Pillsbury, The Acts of the Anti-slavery Apostles (Concord, N.H., 1883), 486–87. 3. Battle Creek Daily Journal, November 28, 1883; F. P. Powell, “The Rise and Decline of the New England Lyceum,” New England Magazine 17, no. 6 (February 1895): 733–34. 4. New York World, May 13, 1867; NASS, December 26, 1868; Sojourner Truth to Amy Post, January 18, 1869, Eliza Leggett to Amy Post, n.d. [probably 1869], AIPFP; D. H. Morgan to Mark K. Gale, STC. 5. Pillsbury, Anti-slavery Apostles, 137. chapter 1: african and dutch religious heritage 1. ASB, December 13, 1851; (Boston) Commonwealth, July 3, l863; NASS, September 24, 1853; “Diana Corbin,” Battle Creek Moon, October 25, 1904; Lillie B. Chace Wyman, “Sojourner Truth,” New England Magazine 24 (1901): 64. 2. NST, 3–5; Lewis Hardenbergh, statement against the gains of Johannis Hardenbergh on behalf of “Old Negro James,” Hardenbergh file, Ulster County Hall of Records, Kingston, New York; James Pope-Hennessy, Sins of the Fathers (London, 1968), 58–59, 99. 3. ASB, December 13, 1851; Liberator, June 21, 1861; Thomas Donaldson, Walt Whitman the Man (New York, 1896), 242, 243. 4. Joyce D. Goodfriend, Before the Melting Pot: Society and Culture in Colonial New York City, 1664–1730 (Princeton, N.J., 1994), 114–15, 120; James A. Rawley, The Transatlantic Slave Trade: A History (New York, 1981), 276–79; David Eltis and David Richardson, “The ‘Numbers Game’ and Routes to Slavery,” Slavery and Abolition 18 (April 1997): 6–7; Anne Hilton, The Kingdom of Kongo (Oxford, 1985), 210–14; Pope-Hennessy, Sins of the Fathers, 183–86; David Richardson, “Slave Exports from West and West-Central Africa, 1700–1810: New Estimates of Volume and Distribution,” Journal of African History 31 (1989): 11–13, 16–20. 382 notes to pages 10–14 5. Rawley, Transatlantic Slave Trade, 334, 386–88; James G. Lydon, “New York and the Slave Trade, 1700–1774,” William and Mary Quarterly, 3d ser., 35 (1978): 375–81, 384–85, 388–93; Thomas J. Davis, “New York’s Long Black Line: A Note on the Growing Slave Population , 1626–1790,” Afro-Americans in New York Life and History 2 (January 1978): 47–49. 6. Hilton, Kingdom of Kongo, 1–7, 33–40, 57, 65–66, 105–7, 165–66; Michael A. Gomez, Exchanging Our Country Marks: The Transformation of African Identities in the Colonial and Antebellum South (Chapel Hill, N.C., 1998), 158–67; Rawley, Transatlantic Slave Trade, 267– 68, 390; David Eltis and Stanley L. Engerman, “Was the Slave Trade Dominated by Men?” Journal of Interdisciplinary History 23 (1992): 237–57; and “Fluctuations in Sex and Age Ratios in the Transatlantic Slave Trade, 1663–1864,” Economic History Review 46 (1993): 308–23; Pope-Hennessy, Sins of the Fathers, 78, 88–89, 99, 114, 127–29, 133, 195–203, 228–29. 7. John K. Thornton, “Central African Names and African-American Naming Patterns,” William and Mary Quarterly, 3d ser., 50 (1993), 727–42; and Thornton, The Kongolese Saint Anthony: Dona Beatriz Kimpa Vita and the Antonian Movement, 1684–1706 (Cambridge, 1998), 87, 149–50, 152–53. 8. Gomez, Exchanging Our Country Marks, 4–5, 8–11, 13–16; Eltis and Richardson, “Numbers Game,” 10–11. 9. NASS, September 24, 1853; Gomez, Exchanging Our Country Marks, 144–46, 151–53; Margaret Washington Creel, “A Peculiar People”: Slave Religion and Community-Culture among the Gullahs (New York, 1988), 50–52, 286–92, 301–2; Hilton, Kingdom of Kongo, 19–31, 89–103, 157–61, 193–96; Thornton, Dona Beatriz. 10. Thornton, Dona Beatriz, 10, 17–14, 36–58, 82–85, 113–15, 131–48, 153–57, 161–214. 11. CDI, August 13, 1879; Chicago Times, August 12, 1879. 12. “The Founding of the Nieuw Dorp, or Hurley,” Olde Ulster 1 (September 1905): 257–64; Van Cleaf Bachman et al., “Het Poelmeisie: An Introduction to the Hudson Valley Dutch Dialect,” New York History 61 (April 1980): 164–67; Egbert L. Viele, “The Knickerbockers of New York Two Centuries Ago,” Harper’s, December 1876, 33–53; Chase Viele, “The Knickerbockers of Upstate New York,” De Halve Maen 47 (October 1972): 5–6; and (January 1973): 9–10; 48 (April 1973): 9–10, 16; and (July 1973): 11–12, 14...