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One of the most famous nineteenth-century black American women, Sojourner Truth was an uneducated former slave who actively opposed slavery. Though she never learned to read or write, she became a moving speaker for black freedom and women's rights. While many of her fellow black abolitionists (people who campaigned for the end of slavery) spoke only to blacks, Truth spoke mainly to whites. While they spoke of violent uprisings, she spoke of reason and religious understanding.
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Narrative of Sojourner Truth is one of the most important documents of slavery ever written, as well as being a partial autobiography of the woman who became a pioneer in the struggles for racial and sexual equality. Read more >
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In the late 1850s, Sojourner Truth moved to Battle Creek, Michigan, where she continued to work on behalf of women's rights and abolition. When the Civil War began, she worked in Washington D.C., helping African-American refugees who had fled slavery find homes and work. After the war, she took up the cause of helping freed people settle in the Western U.S. She ... continued her women's rights activities and work for the franchise. In 1872 she attempted to register to vote in Michigan, claiming that the Fourteenth Amendment gave her this right. Sojourner Truth died in Battle Creek in 1883. 7/1/96
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In her many years as a well-regarded speaker, Sojourner Truth met with two presidents, including Abraham Lincoln, she ... once met Harriet Tubman, and associated with prominent figures such as abolitionists Frederick Douglass and Harriet Beecher Stowe. During the Civil War, she helped recruit African Americans to join the Union Army, and she worked as a counselor to freed slaves. During the Civil War, an incident occurred during which a streetcar conductor sprained her shoulder trying to push her off the streetcar. She had a witness, a White woman friend who was trying to get on the street car with her. She ended up filing assault charges against the conductor who had injured her, and won a victory in court. These highly publicized proceedings resulted in desegregation of the Washington, D.C. streetcars.
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Abolitionist and women's rights advocate Sojourner Truth was enslaved in New York until she was an adult. Born Isabella Baumfree around the turn of the nineteenth century, her first language was Dutch. Owned by a series of masters, she was freed in 1827 by the New York Gradual Abolition Act and worked as a domestic. In 1843 she believed that she was called by God to travel around the nation--sojourn--and preach the truth of his word. Thus, she believed God gave her the name, Sojourner Truth. One of the ways that she supported her work was selling these calling cards.
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The remarkable life of Sojourner Truth is brought to life in this powerful one-woman show. Sojourner Truth (1797-1883) was born into slavery in Hurly, New York as Isabella Baumfree. Her involvement in the Abolitionist movement and post-Civil War activism in support of the rights of freed slaves and women suffragists is highlighted.
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