Convention in Akron, Ohio, at which she was the presiding officer. Gage's expanded description of the speech, and the impact it had upon the convention, appeared less than a month after Harriet Beecher Stowe published her article, "Libyan Sibyl," in the Atlantic Monthly. These two romanticized views of Sojourner Truth helped to create the public image of the ex-slave - an image that lingers on today. ...
