Sojourner Truth was beaten, imprisoned, and bought and sold like property in a nation that promised freedom. This is the story of how she found the courage to ask a question that would echo through history: Ain't I a Woman?
Written by Olive Gilbert, based on information provided by Sojourner Truth. HER BIRTH AND PARENTAGE. THE subject of this biography, SOJOURNER TRUTH, as she now calls herself-but whose name, originally, was Isabella-was born, as near as she can now calculate, between the years 1797 and 1800. She ...