After claiming freedom from her enslaver in 1826, Sojourner Truth became a forceful orator and famed abolitionist. She published a memoir, met three presidents, and made her own career as a preacher. Truth’s advocacy put her among the first to center the experiences and rights of Black women in America.
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Introducing Season 2: Falls from Grace
Thought Leaders: Leon Trotsky
Thought Leaders: Socrates
Thought Leaders: Jean-Paul Marat
Creative Visionaries: Vincent van Gogh
Creative Visionaries: Tennessee Williams
Creative Visionaries: Ernest Hemingway
Notorious Names: Caligula
Notorious Names: Napoleon Bonaparte
Notorious Names: Edward “Blackbeard” Teach
Notorious Names: Wild Bill Hickok
Notorious Names: Al Capone
Assassinations & Executions: Franz Ferdinand
Assassinations & Executions: Julius Caesar
Assassinations & Executions: Harvey Milk
Assassinations & Executions: Mata Hari
American Politics: Crazy Horse
American Politics: Andrew Jackson
American Politics: Abraham Lincoln
American Politics: Alexander Hamilton
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