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    Sojourner Truth

    African-American activist (–)

    Sojourner Truth (;[1] born Isabella Baumfree; c.&#;&#;&#; November 26, ) was an American abolitionist and activist for African-American civil rights, women's rights, and alcohol temperance.[2] Truth was born into slavery in Swartekill, New York, but escaped with her infant daughter to freedom in After going to court to recover her son in , she became the first black woman to win such a case against a white man.

    She gave herself the name Sojourner Truth in after she became convinced that God had called her to leave the city and go into the countryside "testifying to the hope that was in her."[3] Her best-known speech was delivered extemporaneously, in , at the Ohio Women's Rights Convention in Akron, Ohio. The speech became widely known during the Civil War by the title "Ain't I a Woman?", a variation of the original speech that was published in as being spoken in a stereotypical Black dialect,

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    • Alexander, Kerri Lee. “Sojourner Truth.” Google Arts & Culture,
    • The American Parade, Episode Six: “Sojourner,” as broadcast over the CBS Television Network. CBS,
    • Bernard, Jacqueline. Journey Toward Freedom: The Story of Sojourner, WW Norton & Company,
    • Berwanger, E. H. ed. As They Saw Slavery, Winston Press,
    • Claflin, E. Sojourner Truth and the Struggle for Freedom, Barrons Educational Service,
    • Dunster, M. Sojourner Truth, (A Play) Linden Publishers,
    • Ed. bygd Howard Johnson. Black History Monthly February (Kingston, N.Y.)
    • Fauset, A. H. Sojourner Truth; God’s Faithful Pilgrim, Russell & Russell,
    • Ferris, J. Walking the Road to Freedom; A Story About besökare Truth, Carolrhoda Books,
    • Gilbert, O. Narrative of Sojourner Truth. Arno,
      • —. Narrative of Sojourner Truth…with a History of Her Labors and Correspondence, Drawn from Her “Book of Life”: Also, a Memorial Chapter Giving the Particulars of Her

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        Sojourner Truth

        Edited by Debra Michals, PhD |

        A formerly enslaved woman, Sojourner Truth became an outspoken advocate for abolition, temperance, and civil and women’s rights in the nineteenth century. Her Civil War work earned her an invitation to meet President Abraham Lincoln in

        Truth was born Isabella Bomfree in Dutch-speaking Ulster County, New York in Born into slavery, her enslavers bought and sold Truth four times, and subjected her to harsh physical labor and violent punishments. In her teens, she was united with another enslaved man with whom she had five children, beginning in In —a year before New York’s law freeing enslaved people was to take effect—Truth ran away with her infant Sophia to a nearby abolitionist family, the Van Wageners. The family bought her freedom for twenty dollars and helped Truth successfully sue for the return of her five-year-old-son Peter, who was illegally sold into slavery in Alabama.

        Truth moved to New York City in , where sh

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