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Sojourner Truth (/ s oʊ ˈ dʒ ɜːr n ər, ˈ s oʊ dʒ ɜːr n ər /; born Isabella Baumfree; c. 1797 – November 26, 1883) was an American abolitionist and activist for African-American civil rights, women's rights, and alcohol temperance. Truth was born into slavery in Swartekill, New York, but escaped with her infant daughter to freedom ...
3 days ago · Sojourner Truth (born c. 1797, Ulster county, New York, U.S.—died November 26, 1883, Battle Creek, Michigan) was an African American evangelist and reformer who applied her religious fervour to the abolitionist and women’s rights movements. Isabella was the daughter of slaves and spent her childhood as an abused chattel of several masters.
Oct 29, 2009 · Sojourner Truth was an African American evangelist, abolitionist, women’s rights activist and author who was born into slavery before escaping to freedom in 1826. After gaining her freedom,...
Feb 1, 1999 · 1797-1883. Edited by Debra Michals, PhD | 2015. 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 1864.
Civil rights pioneer. Now the full story of the American icon’s life and faith is finally coming to light. A close-up of Sojourner Truth’s face in statue created by Woodrow Nash. An 1883 New...
Apr 3, 2014 · (1797-1883) Who Was Sojourner Truth? Sojourner Truth was an African American abolitionist and women's rights activist best-known for her speech on racial inequalities, "Ain't I a Woman?",...
Nov 17, 2017 · At the 1851 Women’s Rights Convention held in Akron, Ohio, Sojourner Truth delivered what is now recognized as one of the most famous abolitionist and women’s rights speeches in American history, “Ain’t I a Woman?”
