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Mabee, Carleton was born on December 25, 1914 in Shanghai, China. Son of Fred Carleton and Miriam (Bentley) Mabee.
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Morse, the artist and telegraph inventor of New York City and Pougheepsie, is no easy subject. Nicolai Cikovsky Jr., Curator of American Painting at the National Gallery, observes in a new introduction that the difficulty arises because of "the virtually irreconcilable complexities and contradictions of his character, his mind, and his achievments. It is echoed by the New York Times Book Review which praised the author for whitewashing nothing: "It is a very human Morse that emerges from Mr. Mabee's pages." Winner of the Pulitzer Prize.
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Many Americans have long since forgotten that there ever was slavery along the Hudson River. Yet Sojourner Truth was born a slave near the Hudson River in Ulster County, New York, in the late 1700s. Called merely Isabella as a slave, once freed she adopted the name of Sojourner Truth and became a national figure in the struggle for the emancipation of both blacks and women in Civil War America. Despite the discrimination she suffered as both a black and a woman, Truth significantly shaped both her own life and the struggle for human rights in America. Through her fierce intelligence, her resourcefulness, and her eloquence, she became widely acknowledged as a remarkable figure during her life, and she has become one of the most heavily mythologized figures in American history. While some of the myths about Truth have served positive functions, they have also contributed to distortions about American history, specifically about the history of blacks and women. In this landmark work, the product of years of primary research, Pulizter-Prize winning biographer Carleton Mabee has unearthed the best available sources about this remarkable woman to reconstruct her life as directly as the most original and reliable available sources permit. Included here are new insights on why she never learned to read, on the authenticity of the famous quotations attributed to her (such as Ar'n't I a woman?), her relationship to President Lincoln, her role in the abolitionist movement, her crusade to move freed slaves from the South to the North, and her life as a singer, orator, feminist and woman of faith. This is an engaging, historically precise biography that reassesses the place of Sojourner Truth—slave, prophet, legend--in American history. Sojourner Truth is one of the most famous and most mythologized figures in American history. Pulitzer-Prize-winning biographer Carleton Mabee unearths heretofore-neglected sources and offers valuable new insights into the life of a woman who, against all odds, became a central figure in the struggle for the emancipation of slaves and women in Civil War America.
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Mabee, Carleton was born on December 25, 1914 in Shanghai, China. Son of Fred Carleton and Miriam (Bentley) Mabee.
Bachelor of Arts, Bates College, 1936; Master of Arts (Perkins scholar), Columbia University, 1938; Doctor of Philosophy, Columbia University, 1942.
With, Civilian Public Svc., 1941-1945; Instructor history, Swarthmore (Pennsylvania) College, 1944; tutor, Olivet (Michigan) College, 1947-1949; assistant professor liberal studies, Clarkson College Technology, Potsdam, New York, 1949-1951; associate professor, Clarkson College Technology, 1951-1955; professor, 1955-1961; director social studies division, Delta College, University Center, Michigan, 1961-1964; professor, department chairman humanities and social science, Rose Polytechnic Institute, Terre Haute, Indiana, 1964-1965; professor of history, State University College at New Paltz, New York, 1965-1980; professor emeritus, State University College at New Paltz, since 1980. Participant in projects for American Friends Service Committee, 1941-1947, 53, 63. Fulbright professor Keio U., Tokyo, 1953-1954.
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Trustee Young-Morse History Site, Poughkeepsie, New York. Sojourner Truth Institute, Kingston, New York. Member of New York State History Association Beta Kappa, Delta Sigma Rho.
Methodist.
Married Norma Dierking, December 20, 1945. Children: Timothy I., Susan (Mistress Paul Newhouse).