Author Archives: Gloria S. Ross for The St. Louis Beacon

Aug. 12, 1939 – April 28, 2013 “Col. Hardenbergh noted the birth of another slave with the same indifference he might have shown a calf or lamb.” The line from Sojourner Truth: Ain’t I a Woman, the fictionalized account of the life of a freed slave who became an abolitionist, embodies the crisp, enthralling style of Patricia […]