<p>From the Smithsonian's <em>Sidedoor</em> podcast: sorting fact from fiction to find the real Sojourner Truth.</p><p>As a prominent woman's rights activist and abolitionist, Sojourner Truth gave hundreds of speeches and sold countless images of herself. And yet the words that define her in our popular imagination - "Ain't I a woman?" - were actually made up.</p><p>Host <a href="https://www.lizziepeabody.com/"><strong>Lizzie Peabody</strong></a> went looking for the real Sojourner Truth and she found a woman with a much more complicated and fascinating life than any slogan can capture.</p><p>Guests:</p><p>Nell Irvin Painter, author of <em>Sojourner Truth: a Life, a Symbol</em>; <a href="https://history.princeton.edu/people/nell-irvin-painter"><strong>Edwards Professor of American History Emerita</strong></a> at Princeton University</p><p>Ashleigh Coren, former content strategist for the <a href="https://oursharedfuture.si.edu/"><strong>Smithsonian's Our Shared Future: Reckoning with Our Racial Past</strong></a> initiative</p><p><a href="https://npg.si.edu/about-us/director"><strong>Kim Sajet</strong></a>, director of the <a href="https://npg.si.edu/"><strong>Smithsonian’s National Portrait Gallery</strong></a> and host of the <a href="https://npg.si.edu/podcasts"><strong>Smithsonian's Portraits podcast</strong></a></p>
