Today's American Minute — Harriet Tubman

Sojourner Truth, Betsey Stockton, Harriet Tubman, Anna Murray-Douglass & Notable Black Women Pioneers - American Minute with Bill Federer

Anna Murray-Douglass & Notable Black Women Pioneers - American Minute with Bill Federer Betsey Stockton Harriet Tubman Sojourner Truth

Sojourner Truth, Betsey Stockton, Harriet Tubman, Anna Murray-Douglass & Notable Black Women Pioneers - American Minute with Bill Federer

After the Emancipation Proclamation, Sojourner Truth moved to Washington, D.C., met Lincoln and helped former slaves. She dictated her biography, The Narrative of Sojourner Truth: A Northern Slave, 1850, stating: "When I left the house of bondage I left everything behind. I wanted to keep nothing of Egypt on me, and so I went to the Lord and asked him to give me a new name."

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