The Chicago Public Library will feature a theater production of “Women on the Road to Freedom,” starring writer/performer Bisola Marigany.
The show interprets the lives of abolitionists Sojourner Truth and Mary Ann Shadd.
Truth, who died in 1883, was the first African-American woman orator to speak out against slavery.
Shadd, who died in 1893, was a proponent of abolition, equal rights and women’s suffrage.
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12:15 p.m. Wednesday at the Harold Washington Library, 400 S. State St.
