Sojourner Truth

By Laura Hamilton Waxman

Subjects: Juvenile literature, Biography, Biography & Autobiography, Nonfiction, African American women, Social reformers, Juvenile Nonfiction, African American abolitionists, Abolitionists, History

Description: True or False? Sojourner Truth chose her own name. True! When Sojourner Truth decided to change her life to become a traveling preacher, she changed her name. A freed slave, she wanted her new name to describe her new job.