After Harriet Tubman
The same witness belongs to the Industrial Age.
Battle Creek only makes full sense inside a wider century where abolition, war, reform, and industrial modernity all reshape what freedom can mean without settling who gets to speak for it.
A long century of emancipation, reconstruction, industry, and unfinished justice in which witness keeps colliding with institutions that want cleaner stories.
This step moves the visitor from one witness into the larger human setting pressing through her room.
The era step explains why freedom can be legally larger, socially narrower, and morally unresolved at the same time.
Return to Sojourner with the wider age behind her in view.
After widening to the age, Battle Creek reads less like late decline and more like one life still answering a whole century's evasions.
The wider age closes again in one town.
Battle Creek gives the century a final human location instead of leaving it abstract.
Known
The repository's governed era registry places Sojourner Truth's time-anchor year within the Industrial Age.
Uncertainty
Abolition, Reconstruction, and Black political struggle are only partially captured by the wider Industrial Age grouping.