Had been made (note bow the passive voice avoids any assignment of When confronted by reporters about Clinton's historical gaffe,Ī campaign aide somewhat testily explained no real 'mistake' At nearly six feet, Truth was almost a giant for her day, Yorker, and the school bearing her name is appropriately situated in

She gamed her freedom when slaveryĮnded in that region and never lived in the South or had any affiliation Truth was a remarkable woman, but she was a full generation older Had presented the biography of 'General' Harriet Tubman-not Only laterĭid someone from the press point out to Hillary Rodham Clinton that she The students seem to have been appropriately reverential to theirĭistinguished guest and attempted to suppress their giggles. Helping them follow the North Star to freedom. Returned over and over again to emancipate others of her race by bravely Their 'role model' the inspirational black woman who hadĮscaped from slavery in the South via the Underground Railroad and then Mostly African-American students how fortunate they were to have for

Her photo-op appearance that day she told the attentive, all-female, States Senate took her campaign to the Sojourner Truth School. In the New York Daily News, and therefore take it to be true): In theįall of 2002, a deservedly famous liberal candidate for the United This is a true story (at least I heard it on FM radio and read it Madison, WI: University of Wisconsin Press, 2003, 458 pp., $45.00īound for the Promised Land by Kate Clifford Larson. Harriet Tubman: The Life and the Life Stories by Jean M. Harriet Tubman: The Road to Freedom by Catherine Clinton. APA style: Sojourner Tubman and Harriet Truth.Sojourner Tubman and Harriet Truth.' Retrieved from MLA style: 'Sojourner Tubman and Harriet Truth.' The Free Library.

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