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E-book online - Narrative of Sojourner Truth: A Northern Slave - doooha.com

Sojourner Truth was an African-American abolitionist and

women’s rights activist. Truth was born into slavery in

Swartekill, Ulster County, New York, but escaped with her

infant daughter to freedom in 1826. After going to court to

recover her son, she became the first black woman to win such

a case against a white man. Sojourner Truth was named

Isabella Baumfree when she was born. She gave herself the

name Sojourner Truth in 1843. Her best-known

extemporaneous speech on gender inequalities, “Ain’t I a

Woman?”, was delivered in 1851 at the Ohio Women’s Rights

Convention in Akron, Ohio. During the Civil War, Truth

helped recruit black troops for the Union Army; after the war,

she tried unsuccessfully to secure land grants from the federal

government for former slaves.