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   Sojourner Truth ( / soʊˈdʒɜːrnər, ˈsoʊdʒɜːrnər /; [1] 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. [2] Truth was born into slavery in Swartekill, New York, but escaped with her infant daughter to freedom in ...

   • Parent(s): James Baumfree, Elizabeth Baumfree
   • Died: November 26, 1883 (aged 86), Battle Creek, Michigan, United States

   • Born: Isabella Baumfree, c. 1797, Swartekill, New York, United States

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   Apr 12, 2024 · 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.

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   Oct 29, 2009 · Sojourner Truth (1797-1883) was an African American evangelist, abolitionist, women’s rights activist, author who was born into slavery. After escaping to freedom in 1826, Truth traveled the ...

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     The Real History of Sojourner Truth’s “Ain’t I a Woman” Speech

     In spring 1863, The Atlantic published a feature on Sojourner Truth written by Harriet Beecher Stowe, which inspired activist Frances D. Gage to put her own memories of the abolitionist in print. Gage had been the president of the 1851 Woman’s Rights Convention in Akron, and so those memories revolved around Truth’s role in the event.

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     So Tall Within: Sojourner Truth’s Long Walk Toward Freedom

     Schmidt, Gary D. So Tall Within: Sojourner Truth’s Long Walk Toward Freedom. Illus. by Daniel Minter. 2018. 48p. Macmillian/Roaring Broo, $18.99 (9781626728721). Gr. 1-5.

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   Feb 1, 1999 · 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. Truth was born Isabella Bomfree in Dutch-speaking Ulster County, New York in 1797.

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   Abolitionist. 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 ...

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   Who was Sojourner Truth?

   • Sojourner Truth ( / soʊˈdʒɜːrnər, ˈsoʊdʒɜːrnər /; 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 in 1826.

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   • Sojourner Truth: A Life, A Symbol. New York and London: W. W. Norton & Co. ISBN 0-393-31708-0. Painter, Nell Irvin. "Truth, Sojourner" in American National Biography (2000) doi: 10.1093/anb/9780198606697.article.1500706 Painter, Nell Irvin. "Sojourner Truth in life and memory: Writing the biography of an American exotic."

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   What did Sojourner Truth say about women?

   • But all versions of her remarks make one thing clear: Sojourner Truth challenged the idea of women’s inferiority. By her words and nonpareil presence, she pushed attendees to see her womanhood and her humanity, categories typically denied to antebellum Black people, slave or free.

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   • Sojourner Truth | PBS". www.pbs.org. Retrieved February 14, 2020. ^ Painter, Nell Irvin (1996). Sojourner Truth – A Life, A Symbol. New York, NY: W.W. Norton & Company. p. 73. ISBN 978-0393027396. Retrieved September 14, 2017. ^ Benowitz, June Melby (2017). "Truth, Sojourner (ca. 1797–1883)". Encyclopedia of American Women and Religion (2nd ed.).

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    Apr 3, 2014 · Sojourner Truth was sold at an auction at the age of nine, along with a flock of sheep, for $100. Truth was one of the first Black women to successfully challenge a white man in a United States court.

11. www.nationalgeographic.com › history › articleSojourner Truth’s battle cry still resonates 170 years later

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    May 28, 2021 · The first irony is that Sojourner Truth is Barbara Allen’s sixth great-grandmother, born in 1797 in New York State and who died in Battle Creek, Michigan in 1893. The second irony is that at ...