Sojourner Truth told an audience in Massachusetts, “Children, I have come here like the rest of you, to hear what I have to say.” And what she had to say was plenty. She spoke of a woman’s right to vote. She spoke about making prisons more humane. She asked the government to offer land to former slaves. She spoke against capital punishment. For almost fifteen more years, she walked thousands of miles—to Philadelphia and to Brooklyn and to Washington, D.C. And to Kansas and Iowa and Missouri and Wisconsin and Illinois and all over Michigan. And everywhere she went, she spoke of Freedom.
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