sojourner truth

I just read a letter by soujourner truth with my class yesturday and it really hit me. There were so many different things she said like, " I have been fourty years free and fourty years a slave." That broke my heart right there. And being an african american it really hurts to know that my people really had to go through all this to get where we are now. The other thing that really caught my attention was when she said, "I am above eighty years old; it is about time for me to be going..........I suppose I am kept here because someting remains for me to do." And she was right there was alot more to be done but thankfully that emancipation proclamation was made and now i'm sure soujourner truth is now smiling in here grave.....peace and love.....<3