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Sojourner Truth, African American evangelist and reformer who applied her religious fervor to the abolitionist and women’s rights movements. Obeying a supernatural call to ‘travel up and down the land,’ she sang, preached, and debated throughout the eastern and midwestern U.S.
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Answer: Sojourner Truth, who had been formerly enslaved,...
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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 ...
Oct 29, 2009 · Sojourner Truth was born Isabella Baumfree in 1797 and escaped from slavery in 1826. She became a prominent abolitionist, women's rights activist and author, known for her speech "Ain't I a Woman?"
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 extemporaneously in 1851 at the...
Feb 1, 1999 · Sojourner Truth was born Isabella Bomfree in 1797 as a slave in New York. She became a prominent abolitionist, women's rights activist, and author of The Narrative of Sojourner Truth.
May 14, 2018 · A bolitionist Sojourner Truth is one of the most famous women in American history. Born into slavery, she became a leader in the abolitionist movement (the crusade to end slavery in America) and a pioneer in the battle for women's rights during the 1840s and 1850s.
Sojourner Truth was born into slavery around the year 1797. Her parents, John and Elizabeth Bomfree, were enslaved by a man named Charles Hardenbergh who lived in Esopus, New York. John and Elizabeth named their new daughter Isabella.
