Sojourner Truth - Abolitionist & Women's Rights Activist

Sojourner Truth (born Isabella Baumfree, c. 1797 to November 26, 1883) was an African-American abolitionist and women's rights activist best-known for her speech on racial inequalities, "Ain't I a Woman?", delivered extemporaneously in 1851 at the Ohio Women's Rights Convention. Truth was born into slavery in New York in 1797 and she spoke only Dutch until sold around the age of 9, together with a flock of sheep, for $100. She devoted her life to the abolitionist cause and helped to recruit black troops for the Union Army. Although Truth began her career as an abolitionist, the reform causes she sponsored were broad and varied, including prison reform, property rights and universal suffrage.

Sojourner Truth - Civil Rights Activist

Truth was born into slavery in Swartekill, Ulster County, New York and she spoke only Dutch until sold around the age of 9, together with a flock of sheep, for $100. She escaped with her infant daughter to freedom in 1826 and went to Canada. After New York abolished slavery, she returned as a domestic servant and helped with Elijah Pierson's street-corner preaching. After going to court to recover her son, in 1828, she became the first black woman to win such a case against a white man. In 1843, Sojourner Truth heard "a voice from Heaven" and began spreading "God's truth and plan for salvation."

She gave herself the name Sojourner Truth in 1843. Her best-known speech was delivered extemporaneously, in 1851, 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 re-written by someone else using a stereotypical Southern dialect; whereas Sojourner Truth was from New York and grew up speaking Dutch as her first language. During the Civil War, Truth helped recruit black troops for the Union Army; after the war, she tried unsuccessfully to secure land grants from the federal government for former slaves.

Truth eventually settled in Battle Creek, MI where she became a Seventh-Day Adventist. She died and was buried in Battle Creek, MI in 1883.

In 2014, Truth was included in Smithsonian magazine's list of the "100 Most Significant Americans of All Time".

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