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Sojourner Truth is most famous for her women's right speech entitled Ain't I a Woman.

There's a certain irony in the fact that most of what everyone knows about her is just not the truth at all.

The End.

Let's talk about Sojourner Truth.

But first, let's drop her into history in 1851, Regaletto premiered in Venice, Moby Dick and the New York Times were first published,

the refrigeration machine, the telescope, the Yale lock, and the sewing machine were all patented,

a fire destroyed 35,000 volumes in the U.S. Library of Congress, and another one destroyed one quarter of San Francisco.

The first America's Cup sailing race was held in the waters off the Isle of White.

Mary Shelley and James Audubon both died.

And on May 29, 1851, a former slave named Sojourner Truth gave a speech at a woman's rights convention that's still being discussed today.

Hello and welcome to the show. Isabella Hardenberg, who at the time of her birth was most likely just called Hardenberg's Isabella,

was born sometime in 1797 in Hurley, New York, a town about 90 miles north of New York City.

She was the 11th child of James Bompry and Betsy, who were an enslaved couple owned by Colonel Johannes Hardenberg.

You're like New York.

I thought slavery was the deep self.

Don't we all have that picture?

You know, go ahead.

The wind, we've all seen it.

Cotton plantations, the Civil War.

Well, when Isabella, her parents called her bell.

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