by Cheryl Williams
It was the dawn of a new day. On the cusp of the 19th century, and a young America rose starry-eyed with religious fervor and abolitionism during the Second Great Awakening – and so forth did an unlikely heroine rise to the occasion as well. Isabella Baumfree reinvented herself, Sojourner Truth – the willful, passionate, charismatic, Bible toting ex-slave with a self-proclaimed calling. An ordained mission that came with every good intention to “make the nation rock like a cradle” if mired against her life’s pursuit; pioneering subjugated blacks and women alike out of the antebellum dark ages of slavery and women’s suffrage, into spiritual enlightenment and sovereignty.
