Sojourner Truth documents rediscovered

Name: Sojourner Truth documents rediscovered
Uploaded: 2022-06-15T01:40:00Z
Duration: 1 min 41 s
Description: An eagle-eyed state archivist searching for something else spotted court records from a historic case of a Black woman — Isabella Van Wagenen — prevailing in court against a white man. Van Wagenen later took the name Sojourner Truth. (By The Associated Press)

An eagle-eyed state archivist searching for something else spotted court records from a historic case of a Black woman — Isabella Van Wagenen — prevailing in court against a white man. Van Wagenen later took the name Sojourner Truth. (By The Associated Press)

Posted June 14, 2022 9:40pm EDT