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Article: A WOMAN CALLED TRUTH' POWERFULLY CONVEYS ITS MESSAGE.(LIFESTYLE)(Review)
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- The Capital Times
- Article date:
- February 9, 2002
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Byline: Debra Neff Nathans Special to The Capital Times
"A Woman Called Truth" is an inspirational play about a remarkable woman.
She went from a slave girl called Isabella, using whatever last name her current owner had, to being Sojourner Truth, famous traveling preacher and outspoken advocate for women's rights and the abolition of slavery.
The play is simple and biographical. The story is all Sojourner's. She is telling her life story at an 1851 women's rights convention in Akron, Ohio, where she gave her famous "Ain't I A Woman" speech.
As Sojourner tells her story, the audience is taken back through her painful and triumphant ...