History 301 – History Conversations – September 30, 2008  

Biography: Can we ever really know another person?  

Can we ever know Sojourner Truth?   

1. Her Times è  

2. Her Childhood è  

3. Images imposed on her by others è

“MEDIATION” – we see reality through multiple “lenses” which both reveal something about reality – and distort reality

Whites in general	Abolitionists, in general	Harriet Beecher Stowe	Olive Gilbert	Frances Dana Gage
William Wetmore Story	Journalists (and the media, in general)	The Northhampton Association	Political opponents & Hecklers	Frederick Douglass
The Prophet Matthias & the Millerites	Suffragists	Truth’s New York Owners	Later Generations	Nell Painter
You (how do YOU see Sojourner Truth?  Do you see the “real” Truth, or do you look through another set of lenses?)

 

4. Her own self-images (do they change?) è 

 

5. Her actions (do they change)? è   

 

6. Her own words è

 

 

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