“The Lord has made me a sign unto this nation, an’ I go round a’testifyin’ an’ showin’ on ’em their sins agin my people.” At a gathering of prominent clergymen and abolitionists at the home of Harriet Beecher Stowe, author of Uncle Tom’s Cabin, Stowe was informed that Sojourner Truth was downstairs and wanted to meet her. “You’s heerd o’ me, I reckon?” the former slave asked Stowe when she came downstairs. “Yes, I think I