https://padlet.com/2479813/y7kb8qvl7q908mk0 en-us 2023-04-18 17:58:59 UTC 2025-10-22 13:44:27 UTC hello@padlet.com 2479813 https://padlet.com/2479813/y7kb8qvl7q908mk0/wish/2559019069 Sojourner Truth was born into slavery in New York with the original name of Isabella Baumfree.]]> 2023-04-18 18:10:54 UTC https://padlet.com/2479813/y7kb8qvl7q908mk0/wish/2559019069 2479813 https://padlet.com/2479813/y7kb8qvl7q908mk0/wish/2559031825 Sojourner escaped slavery with her infant daughter and got freedom but had to leave the rest of her children behind.]]> 2023-04-18 18:21:19 UTC https://padlet.com/2479813/y7kb8qvl7q908mk0/wish/2559031825 2479813 https://padlet.com/2479813/y7kb8qvl7q908mk0/wish/2559037993 She was the first black woman to win a case against a white man when she went to court to get her son back.]]> 2023-04-18 18:26:04 UTC https://padlet.com/2479813/y7kb8qvl7q908mk0/wish/2559037993 2479813 https://padlet.com/2479813/y7kb8qvl7q908mk0/wish/2559041531 Sojourner changed her original slave name from Isabella Baumfree to her free name, Sojourner Truth.]]> 2023-04-18 18:29:07 UTC https://padlet.com/2479813/y7kb8qvl7q908mk0/wish/2559041531 2479813 https://padlet.com/2479813/y7kb8qvl7q908mk0/wish/2560565866 Sojourner joined an abolitionist organization called Northampton Association of Education and Industry. She met leading abolitionists like Fredrick Douglass and became an abolitionist and equal human rights activist as well. ]]> 2023-04-19 18:10:33 UTC https://padlet.com/2479813/y7kb8qvl7q908mk0/wish/2560565866 2479813 https://padlet.com/2479813/y7kb8qvl7q908mk0/wish/2560572593 At the Ohio Women's Rights Convention she delivered the speech "Ain't I a Woman" which became a widely known speech during the Civil War.]]> 2023-04-19 18:16:30 UTC https://padlet.com/2479813/y7kb8qvl7q908mk0/wish/2560572593 2479813 https://padlet.com/2479813/y7kb8qvl7q908mk0/wish/2560580569 She sold all her property and moved to Michigan where she rejoined former anti-slavery activists and she joined the Progressive Friends who were main abolitionists in Michigan.]]> 2023-04-19 18:24:23 UTC https://padlet.com/2479813/y7kb8qvl7q908mk0/wish/2560580569 2479813 https://padlet.com/2479813/y7kb8qvl7q908mk0/wish/2560584975 Truth started to work in Washington D.C. for the National Freedman's Relief Association where she fought to improve the conditions for African-Americans. ]]> 2023-04-19 18:28:42 UTC https://padlet.com/2479813/y7kb8qvl7q908mk0/wish/2560584975 2479813 https://padlet.com/2479813/y7kb8qvl7q908mk0/wish/2560585483 Sojourner was employed at the Freedman's Hospital in Washington and rode in streetcars to help stop segregation.]]> 2023-04-19 18:29:11 UTC https://padlet.com/2479813/y7kb8qvl7q908mk0/wish/2560585483 2479813 https://padlet.com/2479813/y7kb8qvl7q908mk0/wish/2560654582 Sojourner Truth was cared for by her two daughters for the last few years of her life until she died in her Battle Creek home and many life size statues were made in her honor. ]]> 2023-04-19 19:36:14 UTC https://padlet.com/2479813/y7kb8qvl7q908mk0/wish/2560654582