Sojourner Truth walked all the way to Washington, D.C. There she met Abraham Lincoln, and she told him he was “the best president who has ever taken the seat.” In Michigan she collected food and clothing for the Black regiments of free men and former slaves fighting in the Civil War to end Slavery. In Virginia she worked with the Freedmen’s Bureau to teach liberated slaves how to live in Freedom. When some people wanted to stop her, she warned that if they tried, she “would rock the United States like a cradle.”
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