at the same time, the newspapers, because harriet beecher stowe was the most popular author in america, the newspapers sometimes willy-nilly embraced the harriet beecher stowe image. so some ways it was a double-edged sword. stowe made her popular in the whole nation but at the same time she had to constantly struggle against this basically racist image but those who knew sojourner truth before 1863 understood that was really not sojourner. but stowe was only one aspect of what she had to struggle against. another one was her age. when she died, her tombstone read that she was 106. she was 86. but for various reasons people wanted her to be older than she was. so she was always struggling with this age issue. and she would often, sometimes she'd get angry about it, sometimes she'd make a joke about it, but it was always a form of caricaturizing sojourner truth to make her old sojourner. so there were a number of aspects of her personality that she had to struggle against. but because she couldn't read and write, this was difficult. the amazing aspect of it was that even though she was