Women’s History Month: Sojourner Truth and Her Groundbreaking 1828 Court Case

In this episode of A New York Minute in History, co-hosts Devin Lander and Lauren Roberts commemorate Women’s History Month by uncovering the groundbreaking 1828 court case of Sojourner Truth, a self-emancipated Black woman who took on a white slave owner to free her young son from bondage. This episode also hears interviews from Barbara Allen, an author and Sixth-Great Granddaughter of Sojourner Truth, as well as Taylor Bruck, an Ulster County Clerk and Historian for the City of Kingston.