Excerpt from Narrative of Sojourner Truth, a Northern Slave: Emancipated From Bodily Servitude by the State of New York, in 1828 Shall our own glorious land retain That curse which Europe seems to bear? Shall our own brethren drag the chain, W'hich not even Russia's menials wear?' About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.