When Harriet Met Sojourner looks at two of America’s most engaging historical figures: Harriet Tubman and Sojourner Truth. Both began life as slaves, both worked to free people from the bonds of slavery, and both became champions of civil rights for all. Despite their overlapping work, they only met once and there is no record of their conversation. When Harriet Met Sojourner imagines their encounter in Boston in 1864.