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Sojourner Truth was an African American evangelist, abolitionist, women’s rights activist, and author
Sojourner Truth spoke out about abolitionism and equal rights for all
Sojourner Truth becoming one of the world’s best-known human rights movement advocate.

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Sojourner Truth was born in Ulster County, New York., initially, named Isabella Baumfree to enslaved parents James and Elizabeth Baumfree,
At age 9, Sojourner Truth was sold in an auction for 100 dollars to john Neely with a flock of sheep.
Her owner John Neely was cruel; he beat her up. She was sold two more times. At the age of 13, she eventually found an owner John Dumont and his second wife, Elizabeth. At the West Park, New York.
At 18, she fell in love with an enslaved man named Robert from a nearby farm, but She wasn’t allowed to marry the man she loved but instead had to marry another enslaved man owned by Dumont named Thomas.
She had five kids named James, Diana, Peter, Elizabeth, and Sophia.

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“19th century, New York started legislating emancipation, but it would take over two decades for liberation to come for all enslaved people in the state.”

Sojourner Truth was promised that she would get her freedom on July 4, 1826,  if she was well and faithful by her owner Dumont but it turned out he didn’t stick to his word and decide not to let her go.

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Enraged and feeling that she has done what she could for her "owner" Isabella decide to walk away as she said running would be too wicked and she also took her infant daughter with her.

But she had make a hard decision when leaving the rest of her children because they were still legally Dumont.

Isabella made it to New Platz, New York  with her infant daughter where they were taken as free people by Isaac and Maria Van Wagenen.

Dumont came to take Isabella and her infant daughter but when Van Wagenen’s offered $20 for Isabella’s services till the New York Anti-Slavery Law took effect in 1827 Dumont accepted.

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The Anti-Slavery Law in New York was passed, and Dumont illegally sold Isabella’s son Petter who was just 5-year-old
Isabella decided to sew him with the help of Van Wagenen’s to get her son back.
After months Isabella won her case and got custody of her son Petter, and she also became the first black woman to sue a white man in the united states court and win.

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She moved to New York City with her son Peter to become a housekeeper for evangelist preacher Elijah PiersonVan because Wagenen’s impacted her spiritual life, which led her to become a genuine Christian. After working their for three years, she moved to another preacher  Robert Matthews. Sadly preacher Elijah Pierson died, and Mathew and isabella were accused of poisoning him but found innocent.

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Isabella set out on her passage to preach the gospel and speak out against slavery and oppression. She also changed her name to Sojourner Truth. When she was living with people of the same faith, it engorged Isabella’s spirituality to Christianity and her aspiration to preach and change others’ views on her belief.

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Truth joined an abolitionist organization in Massachusetts named Northampton Association of Education and Industry. She met one of the greatest abolitionists like Frederick Doughless and successfully began her career as an equal rights activist.

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There was a women right convection in Ohio which Truth attended and expressed her thought very strongly after twelve years Frances Gage who is a white abolition who is also the president of the convection published a report of truths words in the National Anti-Slavery Standard Frances Gage in her statement says Truth used a rhetorical question “Ain't I a Woman?” to indicate the discrimination truth felt as black women.

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During her speech, she says, "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 plowed 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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April 12, 1861  During the Civil War    

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April 12, 1861  During the Civil War    

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Truth helped in the civil war by recruiting  Black soldiers she also worked in Washington, D.C. National Freedman’s Relief Association and she gathered people to donate food clothes and supplies to the black refuge.

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Truth got invited to the white house because of Her activism for the abolitionist movement
by president Abraham Lincoln where he showed her a Bible given to him by African Americans in Baltimore.

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While Truth was in Washington she showed courage by ridding on a whites-only streetcar and also helped to find jobs for freed Black Americans after the civil war.

petitioned the government to resettle formerly enslaved people on government land in the West but failed.

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Truth moved to Battle Creek, Michigan, where some of her daughters lived. She still fought against discrimination and strongly supported women’s suffrage but worried strong leaders like Frederick Dongles were more considered about the equality of black men instead of black women.

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Truth died at age of 86 and  on her tombstone was written “is god dead” which she asked Fredrick Dongles to give him a sense hope.

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Do you know that Truth didn’t learn how to write or read she spoke by faith and her soul.
My favorite quote of hers

“If the first woman God ever made was strong enough to turn the world upside down all alone, these women together ought to be able to turn it back, and get it right side up again! And now they are asking to do it, the men better let them.”