 | Sojourner Truth: Slave, Prophet, Legend Subjects: Truth Sojourner d. 1883; Afro-Americans -- Biography; Abolitionists -- United States -- Biography; Social reformers -- United States -- Biography; No detailed description available for "Sojourner Truth". Fred Carleton Mabee Jr. was born on December 25, 1914 to Baptist missionary teachers in the French concession of Shanghai. He attended Bates College as an undergraduate then enrolled at Columbia University, where he wrote a dissertation that became his biography of Samuel Morse. His first book, The American Leonardo: A Life of Samuel F. B. Morse, won the Pulitzer Prize. Since he was a conscientious objector in World War II, he did civilian public service as an attendant in a mental hospital. After the war, he spent time in Vienna as a relief worker with the American Friends Service Committee. He taught at many universities during his lifetime including Olivet College, Clarkson University, Delta College, and Keio University. He taught at the State University of New York at New Paltz from 1965 until his retirement in 1980. His other books include The Seaway Story, Sojourner Truth: Slave, Prophet, Legend, and Promised Land: Father Divine's Interracial Communities in Ulster County, New York. He also wrote books about the railroads of the Hudson Valley of New York State. He died from complications of a fall on December 18, 2014 at the age of 99. (Bowker Author Biography) |
