Sojourner Truth recounts the life of the formerly enslaved New Yorker who became an itinerant preacher and a prominent advocate of abolition, women’s rights and racial equality. It follows her escape from slavery, her successful legal effort to recover her son and the adoption of the name by which she became nationally known.
The biography examines Truth’s speeches, religious convictions and work during the Civil War and Reconstruction. It also distinguishes her documented words from later versions of the “Ain’t I a Woman?” speech, showing how memory reshaped her public image.
