“You may hiss as you please, but women will get their rights anyway,” (Goodreads.com) once said Sojourner Truth. Born a slave, Truth stood up for women’s rights, abolition (slavery), and discrimination. She was a slave in the northern states. Sojourner Truth fought very hard for abolition and women’s rights. All of these experiences were sparked by her harsh years as a slave and her dedication for equality. As a abolitionist, women’s rights activist, and freed slave, she fought for a difference that would help so others would not have to go through the misery that she and other African Americans had to. Sojourner Truth’s early life played a large role in her fight for abolition. Born a slave in 1797 (date not recorded as it was common for …show more content…
On June 1 of 1833, Isabella Baumfree changed her name to Sojourner Truth and devoted her life to Methodism and the abolition of slavery. She joined the Northampton Association of Education and Industry in Northampton Massachusetts. The group was made up of only abolitionists and they also supported women’s rights and pacifism. Pacifism is opposition to war or any violence at all (Dictionary.com). The members of the association lived on 500 acres of land that was self-sufficient to them. Truth met a large number of leading abolitionists in Northampton. This included William Lloyd Garrison, Frederick Douglass, and David Ruggles. Even though the group dissolved in 1846, Sojourner Truth’s career as a activist only started then. Truth gave a speech at the very first women’s convention which was held in Worcester, Massachusetts. She then soon started touring with an abolitionist named George Thompson. Truth and Thompson spoke to large crowds about slavery and human rights. At the Ohio Women’s rights convention in 1851, she conveyed her speech known as “Ain’t I a Woman?” her famous speech about women’s suffrage and equality between men and women. She continued through Ohio from 1851 to 1853 giving speeches about the abolition of slavery and women’s suffrage. She continued to give speeches on abolition until an old age, even through the Civil