Klimek: That’s why Painter’s new book will be called Sojourner Truth Was a New Yorker and She Didn’t Say That. It all goes ...

Yet ever since I first read that refrain in Sojourner Truth’s famous speech ... by Nell Irvin Painter in her scholarship on Truth’s life. Whatever the case, both versions of the speech are ...

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 ...