When I was a little girl, my mom filled my bookshelf with the biographies of strong Christian women. I returned to their stories repeatedly — to Amy Carmichael, Mary Slessor, Elisabeth Elliot, Corrie Ten Boom, and the one dark face on my shelf, Sojourner Truth.
Sojourner stood out from the rest, not just because of the color of her skin, but because of the content of her story. Unlike Amy, Ma