A formerly enslaved woman turned abolitionist and women’s rights ... after their ancestors tried burying them. But if ...

Two deeper histories on people mentioned in a recent column: a famous orator and a mother and son who survived the Holocaust.

The facts of Sojourner Truth’s life are inspiring: Born into slavery in the late 1790s, she became an influential abolitionist and Pentecostal preacher, transfixing audiences from the mid 1840s ...

I can see through a millstone, though I can’t see through a spelling book.” Her Narrative of Sojourner Truth was written in collaboration with White abolitionist Olive Gilbert. Gilbert saw the book as ...

Inspired by her deep faith, she changed her name to Sojourner Truth. A fierce abolitionist and advocate for female equality, Truth delivered her stirring “Ain’t I a Woman” speech at the 1851 ...

Freed from slavery in 1827, Sojourner Truth became an eloquent speaker not only for abolition, but for women's rights as well. Born in bondage to the Hardenberghs, an affluent Dutch family in the ...