Sojourner Truth: I Sell The Shadow
   
Learn what a 19th Century African-American woman has to offer. Kim Russell performs the award winning one person play about an American Hero
 
Do you know who was Sojourner Truth?

She rose from slavery to national prominence as an advocate to abolish slavery and to establish equal rights for women of all colors.

She was the first to challenge slave holders in a court of law.

She was the first to integrate streetcars in Georgetown.
 
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    "Sojourner Truth: I Sell the Shadow" written by Kim Russell. Here is an excerpt from the play - Not for use. Copyright 1999 by Kim Russell - ACT 1, PRELUDE
    Welcome my brothers and sisters. You have come to hear Aunty Sojourner. That is good. You see in my century of life I saw the erosion of a nation into civil war. I knows about the anger people feel when they are denied basic rights. And I knows about being despised because I am woman. I fought for colored right to be free and women’s rights to be equal.
    I come from another field, to country of a slave.
    I come into this world into slavery about fifteen years after the Revolutionary War. The day I counts as my birth was the day I gained my freedom from slavery. It was then that I started to live. God took me on a journey that brought me from the hell fires of bondage to the glory of freedom and social activism. Along my journey I met famous people, righteous people and even met presidents Lincoln and Ulysses Grant. Why that Harriet Beecher Stowe wrote some fine things about me.
    I want to clear up something. No I didn’t go down no underground railroad. That was that good Harriett Tubman woman. I am Sojourner Truth. I am a Dutch speaking African American woman . I am an abolitionist and women’s right advocate. I am a preacher woman. I am the woman who integrated the Georgetown streetcars. And I am the first Negro to sue her slave owner for violating the emancipation laws. Now what do you think of that. Let the Church say Amen.
     
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