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Sojourner Truth (/ s oʊ ˈ dʒ ɜːr n ər, ˈ s oʊ dʒ ɜːr n ər /; [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]
Sojourner Truth was born Isabella Baumfree, in 1797 in Ulster County, New York. Truth ran from her master in 1827 after he went back on his promise of her freedom. She became a preacher and an activist throughout the 1840s–1850s. [1] She delivered her speech, "Ain't I a Woman?", at the Women's Rights Convention in 1851.
Secretary of Sojourner Truth as well as a founder of a school for freed slave men Frances W. Titus (1816-1894) was an American abolitionist and suffragist who is best known for being the confidante, secretary, tour director, financial manager, and editor of Sojourner Truth's biography, Narrative of Sojourner Truth.
On May 29, 1851, Sojourner Truth delivered her famous speech at the Women’s Rights Convention in Akron, Ohio. Her speech was passionate and powerful, and it called out white men for being ...
Before taking the name Sojourner Truth, Isabella Bomfree was born into slavery in or around 1797 in the Hudson Valley. She walked away from the home of her final owner in 1826 with her infant ...
In 1981, an Ohio Historical Marker was unveiled on the site of the Universalist "Old Stone" Church in Akron where Sojourner Truth gave her "Ain't I a Woman?" speech on May 29, 1851. [9] [10] Sojourner Truth Legacy Plaza, which includes a statue of her by sculptor and Akron native Woodrow Nash, opened in Akron in 2024. [11] [12]
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Sojourner Truth's version of the song, "The Valiant Soldiers," which appears in the 1878, 1881, and 1884 editions of her Narrative, is almost identical to Silber's edition of the "Marching Song," containing stanzas one through five plus stanza seven. Only the first line of the first stanza is different: "We are the valiant soldiers who've ...