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"That man over there says that women need to be helped into carriages, and lifted over ditches, and to have the best place everywhere. Nobody ever helps me into carriages, or over mud-puddles, or gives me any best place! And ain’t I a woman? Look at me! Look at my arm! I have ploughed and planted, and gathered into barns, and no man could head me! And ain’t I a woman? I could work as much and eat as much as a man–when I could get it–and bear the lash as well! And ain’t I a woman? I have borne thirteen children, and seen most all sold off to slavery, and when I cried out with my mother’s grief, none but Jesus heard me! And ain’t I a woman?"

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Truth is remembered as one of the foremost leaders of the abolition movement and an early advocate of women's rights. Abolition was one of the few causes that Truth was alive to see recognized in her lifetime.

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Sojourner Truth died at her home in Battle Creek, Michigan, on November 26, 1883. She is buried alongside her family at Battle Creek's Oak Hill Cemetery.

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Until old age took it's tole, Truth continued to speak passionately on the subjects of women's rights, universal suffrage and prison reform. She was also an outspoken opponent of capital punishment, testifying before the Michigan state legislature against the practice.

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On June 1, 1843, Isabella Baumfree changed her name to Sojourner Truth, devoting her life to Methodism and the abolition of slavery.

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In 1826 she ran away from an owner who had promised her freedom, but didn't give it to her. Somebody told her about Christianity, and she converted and became a traveling preacher

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sojourner truth

never learned to read or write, but she was never afraid to speak up for herself.

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She was sold as a slave three times. She was forced into a marriage with a fellow slave and, by age twenty-nine, had given birth to five children.

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born as Isabella Baumfree in 1797, in Swartekill, Ulster County, New York. She was one of many children born to slaves James and Elizabeth Baumfree.