From the Smithsonian's Sidedoor podcast: sorting fact from fiction to find the real Sojourner Truth.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.Host <a href="https://www.lizziepeabody.com/">Lizzie Peabody</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.Guests:Nell Irvin Painter, author of Sojourner Truth: a Life, a Symbol; <a href="https://history.princeton.edu/people/nell-irvin-painter">Edwards Professor of American History Emerita</a> at Princeton UniversityAshleigh Coren, former content strategist for the <a href="https://oursharedfuture.si.edu/">Smithsonian's Our Shared Future: Reckoning with Our Racial Past</a> initiative<a href="https://npg.si.edu/about-us/director">Kim Sajet</a>, director of the <a href="https://npg.si.edu/">Smithsonian’s National Portrait Gallery</a> and host of the <a href="https://npg.si.edu/podcasts">Smithsonian's Portraits podcast</a>

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