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Date: Sunday, March 28, 2010
Time: 2:00 pm
Location: Meeting Room
Already a recognized speaker on antislavery, civil and woman's rights circuits, Sojourner Truth (1797-1886) relocated to Michigan in 1857. Augmenting her reputation as a "doer of the Word" in Michigan during the Civil War, Reconstruction and its aftermath, Sojourner Truth was hailed in her own time as a "national landmark." She dedicated her life to "making the world better" and so captured the American imagination that her true-to-life deeds often compete with myth. Margaret Washington's presentation will highlight Sojourner Truth's life and activities as one of Michigan's most famous citizens.
Margaret Washington is a professor of American history at Cornell University. Professor Washington specializes in African American history and culture, African American women, and the American South. She is the author of Sojourner Truth’s America, Narrative of Sojourner Truth and A Peculiar People: Slave Religion and Community Culture among the Gullahs. Washington has also published numerous articles and on black history and culture and has been featured in such documentaries as: When the Lion Wrote History: The Life of Frederick Douglass; Liberty: The Story of the American Revolution; Africans in America; Unchained Memories: The Narratives of Former Slaves.
