Welcome to the history tricks, where any resemblance to a boring old history lesson is purely coincidental.

Hello, and welcome to the show. Today, in honor of Black History Month, we are bringing you again the story of an OG, sojourner truth, who has often been so very misrepresented by both her contemporaries and those that came after her.

This episode is from 2017.

And like in life, when we know better, we do better, you are going to hear us use the term slave and the term master.

Now in 2025, we would not use

those terms. We would use enslaved and enslaver. It puts the people on the same level of humanity,

except one group is having horrific treatment done to them against their will, and the other is consciously

making a decision to do that treatment to another human being. And we also talk about our

boys who were 12 at the time, and now they're 20, and life is about change, isn't it? And now,

without further ado, on with the show.

Sojourner Truth is most famous for her women's rights 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, Rigoletto 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's 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 formerly enslaved woman named Sojourner Truth

gave a speech at a women's rights convention that's still being discussed today.

Isabella Hardenberg, who at the time of her birth,

was most likely just called Hardenberg's Isabella,

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