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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 ...
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...
Jun 11, 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.
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.
Apr 3, 2014 · 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?", delivered...
Yet the only speaker from that day who attained near-mythical status was Sojourner Truth, a formerly enslaved traveling preacher from New York State. What exactly she said remains an...
Sojourner Truth (b. c . 1797–d. 1883), born enslaved as Isabella Van Wagenen in the Hudson River Valley of Ulster County, New York, spoke Dutch as her first language.
Stanley Friedman wrote a five-movement cantata that explores five moments in the life of Sojourner Truth: taking the name of Sojourner Truth, recruiting soldiers during the Civil War, her famous "Ar'n't/Ain't I a Woman" speech, the end of her life, and her ministry (with a gospel tune).
May 28, 2021 · Sojourner Truth’s battle cry still resonates 170 years later. Her famous “Ain’t I a woman?” speech helped launch the women's suffrage movement and symbolizes America’s ongoing fight for ...
Feb 22, 2024 · The facts of Sojourner Truth’s life are inspiring: Born into slavery in the late 1790s, she became an influential abolitionist and Pentecostal preacher, transfixing audiences from the mid...
