sojourner truth by Luna Moon https://padlet.com/Moonjoy1/enflsk2p3jek An awesome woman en-us 2018-04-25 14:46:56 UTC 2018-04-30 12:15:15 UTC hello@padlet.com sojourner truth Moonjoy1 https://padlet.com/Moonjoy1/enflsk2p3jek/wish/255655214 2018-04-26 14:09:24 UTC https://padlet.com/Moonjoy1/enflsk2p3jek/wish/255655214 childhood 1 Moonjoy1 https://padlet.com/Moonjoy1/enflsk2p3jek/wish/255659454 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. ]]> 2018-04-26 14:17:02 UTC https://padlet.com/Moonjoy1/enflsk2p3jek/wish/255659454 2 Moonjoy1 https://padlet.com/Moonjoy1/enflsk2p3jek/wish/255964731 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. ]]> 2018-04-27 11:47:43 UTC https://padlet.com/Moonjoy1/enflsk2p3jek/wish/255964731 3 Moonjoy1 https://padlet.com/Moonjoy1/enflsk2p3jek/wish/255965184 sojourner truth 
never learned to read or write, but she was never afraid to speak up for herself.
]]> 2018-04-27 11:50:03 UTC https://padlet.com/Moonjoy1/enflsk2p3jek/wish/255965184 4 Moonjoy1 https://padlet.com/Moonjoy1/enflsk2p3jek/wish/255968859  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]]> 2018-04-27 12:05:58 UTC https://padlet.com/Moonjoy1/enflsk2p3jek/wish/255968859 Marriage Moonjoy1 https://padlet.com/Moonjoy1/enflsk2p3jek/wish/255969959 2018-04-27 12:10:29 UTC https://padlet.com/Moonjoy1/enflsk2p3jek/wish/255969959 5 Moonjoy1 https://padlet.com/Moonjoy1/enflsk2p3jek/wish/256359803 On June 1, 1843, Isabella Baumfree changed her name to Sojourner Truth, devoting her life to Methodism and the abolition of slavery.]]> 2018-04-30 00:00:22 UTC https://padlet.com/Moonjoy1/enflsk2p3jek/wish/256359803 6 Moonjoy1 https://padlet.com/Moonjoy1/enflsk2p3jek/wish/256359890 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.]]> 2018-04-30 00:01:04 UTC https://padlet.com/Moonjoy1/enflsk2p3jek/wish/256359890 7 Moonjoy1 https://padlet.com/Moonjoy1/enflsk2p3jek/wish/256360166 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.]]> 2018-04-30 00:02:43 UTC https://padlet.com/Moonjoy1/enflsk2p3jek/wish/256360166 8 Moonjoy1 https://padlet.com/Moonjoy1/enflsk2p3jek/wish/256360260 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. ]]> 2018-04-30 00:03:18 UTC https://padlet.com/Moonjoy1/enflsk2p3jek/wish/256360260 Excerpt from Sojourner Truth's speech Moonjoy1 https://padlet.com/Moonjoy1/enflsk2p3jek/wish/256361239 "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?"]]> 2018-04-30 00:09:37 UTC https://padlet.com/Moonjoy1/enflsk2p3jek/wish/256361239