Week Three - 49 to Go

In this expansive new biography of Sojourner Truth, the charismatic preacher and activist, Margaret Washington is thorough and committed.

Thumbing through dozens of images of Truth and her contemporaries in and of itself makes picking up this volume worthwhile.

When in Akron, Ohio, we often drove pass the Sojourner Truth Building located at 37 North High Street. Each passage would bring to mind the May 1851 Women’s Rights Convention held in this city. For it was at this gathering, Sojourner Truth delivered her simple but powerful speech - “Ain’t I a Woman?”.

Truth also has kept my interest because like Harriet Tubman, Sojourner insisted that she talked with God, and He talked with her, every day of her life.

Read 52 Books in 52 Weeks in 2012