Black History in Two Minutes (or so)

Black History in Two Minutes (or so)


Sojourner Truth: ‘Oprah’s No. 1 Black History Heroine’

October 18, 2019

Isabella Baumfree was born into slavery in the late 18th century. Despite this, she’d go on to prove that enslavement was only a state of mind. She escaped slavery and landed in New York, where she changed her name to Sojourner Truth.