https://padlet.com/s_jessica_rembecki/f3m9bj8c1xbr Jessica Rembecki en-us 2018-02-20 13:01:23 UTC 2018-02-20 13:14:09 UTC hello@padlet.com s_jessica_rembecki https://padlet.com/s_jessica_rembecki/f3m9bj8c1xbr/wish/233231829 Sojourner Truth was an African-American abolitionist and women's rights activist]]> 2018-02-20 13:06:33 UTC https://padlet.com/s_jessica_rembecki/f3m9bj8c1xbr/wish/233231829 s_jessica_rembecki https://padlet.com/s_jessica_rembecki/f3m9bj8c1xbr/wish/233232033 Truth was born into slavery but escaped with her infant daughter to freedom in 1826.]]> 2018-02-20 13:07:12 UTC https://padlet.com/s_jessica_rembecki/f3m9bj8c1xbr/wish/233232033 s_jessica_rembecki https://padlet.com/s_jessica_rembecki/f3m9bj8c1xbr/wish/233232163 She devoted her life to the abolitionist cause and helped to recruit black troops for the Union Army. ]]> 2018-02-20 13:07:38 UTC https://padlet.com/s_jessica_rembecki/f3m9bj8c1xbr/wish/233232163 s_jessica_rembecki https://padlet.com/s_jessica_rembecki/f3m9bj8c1xbr/wish/233232770 Truth learned that her son Peter, then five years old, had been illegally sold to a man in Alabama. She took the issue to court and eventually secured Peter's return from the South. The case was one of the first in which a black woman successfully challenged a white man in a United States court.

]]> 2018-02-20 13:09:27 UTC https://padlet.com/s_jessica_rembecki/f3m9bj8c1xbr/wish/233232770 s_jessica_rembecki https://padlet.com/s_jessica_rembecki/f3m9bj8c1xbr/wish/233233458 She soon began touring regularly with abolitionist George Thompson, speaking to large crowds on the subjects of slavery and human rights. ]]> 2018-02-20 13:11:10 UTC https://padlet.com/s_jessica_rembecki/f3m9bj8c1xbr/wish/233233458 s_jessica_rembecki https://padlet.com/s_jessica_rembecki/f3m9bj8c1xbr/wish/233233883 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 able to see realized in her lifetime. ]]> 2018-02-20 13:12:10 UTC https://padlet.com/s_jessica_rembecki/f3m9bj8c1xbr/wish/233233883 s_jessica_rembecki https://padlet.com/s_jessica_rembecki/f3m9bj8c1xbr/wish/233233997 https://www.biography.com/video/sojourner-truth-mini-biography-11191875531]]> 2018-02-20 13:12:25 UTC https://padlet.com/s_jessica_rembecki/f3m9bj8c1xbr/wish/233233997 s_jessica_rembecki https://padlet.com/s_jessica_rembecki/f3m9bj8c1xbr/wish/233234692 2018-02-20 13:14:09 UTC https://padlet.com/s_jessica_rembecki/f3m9bj8c1xbr/wish/233234692