Sojourner Truth by Roselyn Chilero

Her Life

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Truth was born a slave in Ulster County, New York in 1797.She escaped in 1826 but gained her freedom in 1827. She then moved to New York City.

"Ain't I Woman?"

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Her speech was struggles about being black and woman. She continues to say how she can do anything man can do. This powerful speech was delivered at the Women's Rights Convention in 1851.

Woman's Right Movement

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Truth wanted women's rights and the end of suffrage of enslaved men to end at the same time. She would challenge notions of racial and gender inferiority.

Temperance Movement

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The Temperance Movement was the attempt to ban alcohol. This played a part in the women's suffrage. As they didn't have much rights at the time. This movement basically set off the women's right movement.

Her first job

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She moved to New York City in 1828 to work for a local minster. While she worked there she would go to religious revivals. Truth would deliver speeches. She had also told them that a God called for her preach the truth, and that's why she named Sojourner Truth.

Important people she meet

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Truth met famous abolitionist William L. Garrison and Fredrick Douglass. Garrison would encourage Truth to speak of the evils of slavery. She stopped talking to Fredrick Douglass because he believed the end of suffrage of enslaved men should come first, not women's rights. While Truth believed they should happen at the same time.

Her Slave Life

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Her name was originally Isabella Bomfree. Born into slavery, her enslavers bought and sold her 4 times. They would make her subject to harsh and cruel punishments. While making her do harsh physical labor. When she was in her teens she met another enslaved man whom who she had 5 children with.

Speeches

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Truth traveled and lectured people from many states. She even had her own biography. She would survive off of the sales of the book. She was a powerful and charismatic speaker. Many people moved by her speeches.

Her End

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During the 1850's , settled in Battle Creek, Michigan. She would continue to give speeches. Truth would spend her last moments nearly blind and deaf.

War

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When the civil war started Truth urged young men to join the Union cause and organized supplies for black troops.