When Harriet Met Sojourner

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When Harriet Met Sojourner was written by Catherine Clinton and illustrated by Shane W. Evans. Catherine Clinton is Professor of history at Queen's University, Belfast, Northern Ireland. Specializes in American history, African-American history, the Civil War, and women's history. Previously taught at Brandeis and Harvard universities. Born in 1952, grew up in Kansas City, Missouri. Studied sociology and history at Harvard, earned a master's degree from Sussex and a doctorate from Princeton.[1]

Summary

This powerful picture book relates the lives of Harriet Tubman and Sojourner Truth on alternating pages, leading up to the day they likely met in Boston in 1864. Share this book in the classroom or at home as an introduction to these two American heroes. Compellingly told with a sure storyteller's cadence. Both women renamed themselves, taking ownership of their lives and leading and inspiring others on the road to freedom. (School Library Journal) [2]

Pros

Kayla Osborne who rated this book four stars was explained that both Sojourner Truth and Harriet Tubman were the ultimate heroic women. They were born slaves, but both had a common goal which was to be free. They both faced hardships, but their bravery allowed them to seek their rights to be free. This book explains each woman's life and an imaginative scene of how it must have been when they met for the first time. There were no pictures or press to document this meeting; therefore, this book helps to create a median of some form of occurrence. It enables the reader to create their own imagination of the day Sojourner met Harriet. Jenny had the same point of view as Kayla, she described this book as wonderfully summarizes the life of Harriet Tubman and Sojourner Truth, highlighting commonalities between them as well as differences in their life experience. Then it culminates in reflecting on what they might have done and felt when they were able to meet in 1864 in Boston. A great glimpse into these two remarkable women's lives.[3]

Publishers Weekly mentioned that some illustrations incorporate fabric scraps, subtly reinforcing the ideas that each woman assembled her own future, and that history can be made from the meeting, or joining together, of influential and inspiring people.[4]

A reviewer named Deborah Stevenson explained some positive sides of this book, she said the book, however, capably meld a humorous family story with an exotic setting; the unintimidating pleasures of family pranks and goofy sibling bickering gain interest from their occurrence in the corridors of history amid hordes of staff and enviable perks such as the White House chef and recreational facilities. Kids usually resistant to history may succumb to the lure of this private jaunt around a possibly haunted White House.[5]

References

  1. https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/58492.Catherine_Clinton Catherine Clinton]. goodreads.com. Retrieved 2nd February, 2021
  2. When Harriet Met Sojourner. bookshop.com. Retrieved 2nd February, 2021.
  3. When Harriet Met Sojourner. goodreads.com. Retrieved 2nd February, 2021.
  4. When Harriet Met Sojourner. publishersweekly.com. Retrieved 2nd February, 2021
  5. Stevenson, Deborah. When Harriet Met Sojourner (review). February, 2008. Retrieved 2nd February, 2021