One very brave woman who fought for Women and racial rights! Born in Swartekill, Ulster County, New York, around 1797. Sojourner Truth was what she named herself, from 1843 onward, of Isabella Baumfree. She is an African-American abolitionist and women's rights activists. Sojourner was born into slavery in Swartekill, New York. She had at least 3 of her children sold into slavery, but she escaped with her daughter to freedom in 1826. After she has escaped slavery, she became a women's rights activists and also embraced evangelical religion and became involved in moral reform and abolitionist work. Truth was a powerful speaker whose legacy of feminism and racial equality still resonates to this day.“ Ain't i a woman” was delivered extemporaneously in 1851.
Truth also known as Isabella Baumfree was one of as many as 12 children born to James and Elizabeth Baumfree in the town of Swartekill, in Ulster County, New York. Truths birthdate was never put on record so we don't exactly know when she was born but historians estimate that she was born around 1797. The 9 year old truth as well known as “belle” at the time, was sold at a action
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1844 she joined the Northampton Association of Education and Industry in Northampton Massachusetts. Truth met a number of leading abolitionists at Northampton, including William Lloyd Garrison, Frederick Douglass and David Ruggles. Although the Northampton community disbanded in 1846. Truths careers an activists and reformer was just beginning. In 1850 her memoirs were published under the title “The Narrative of Sojourner Truth: A Northern Slave” Truth dedicated her recollection to a friend, Olive Gilbert, since she could not read or write, and William Lloyd Garrison wrote the preface. That same year, truth spoke at the first Natonial Womens rights Convention in Worcester,