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By Sojourner Truth
I wa'n't goin' to keep nothin' of Egypt on me, an' so I went to the Lord an' asked him to give me a new name. And the Lord gave me Sojourner, because I was to travel up an' down the land, showin' the people their sins, an' bein' a sign unto them.
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- Narrative of Sojourner Truth; a Bondswoman of Olden Time ... with a History of Her Labors and Correspondence, Drawn from Her "Book of Life" (reprint of Harriet Beecher Stowe, "Sojourner Truth, the Libyan Sibyl"), 1875 · p. 164
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Truth explaining how she chose her name, as reported by Harriet Beecher Stowe in 'Sojourner Truth, the Libyan Sibyl' (Atlantic Monthly, April 1863). Stowe wrote the conversation up in dialect after a visit. The Book of Life (1875) reprints her article.