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2. Sojourner Truth - Wikipedia

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   Truth started dictating her memoirs to her friend Olive Gilbert and in 1850 William Lloyd Garrison privately published her book, The Narrative of Sojourner Truth: a Northern Slave. [17] That same year, she purchased a home in Florence for $300 and spoke at the first National Women's Rights Convention in Worcester, Massachusetts.

3. Patricia McKissack - Wikipedia

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   Patricia C. McKissack (née Carwell; August 9, 1944 – April 7, 2017) was a prolific African-American children's writer. [1] She was the author of more than 100 books, including Dear America books A Picture of Freedom: The Diary of Clotee, a Slave Girl; Color Me Dark: The Diary of Nellie Lee Love, The Great Migration North; and Look to the Hills: The Diary of Lozette Moreau, a French Slave Girl.

4. Sojourner Truth (biography) - Wikipedia

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   The School Library Journal, in a review of Sojourner Truth wrote "With compassion and historical detail, the McKissacks offer a rich profile of Isabella Van Wagener. .. the McKissacks emphasize the condition of African-Americans from 1797-1883, their subject's convictions and magnetism, her contributions to the welfare of her people, and her involvement with other influential abolitionists and ...

5. Sojourner Truth statue unveiled at the site of 1851 ‘Ain’t I ...

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   Before taking the name Sojourner Truth, Isabella Bomfree was born into slavery in or around 1797 in the Hudson Valley. She walked away from the home of her final owner in 1826 with her infant ...

6. Ain't I a Woman? - Wikipedia

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   Sojourner Truth was born Isabella Baumfree, in 1797 in Ulster County, New York. Truth ran from her master in 1827 after he went back on his promise of her freedom. She became a preacher and an activist throughout the 1840s–1850s. [1] She delivered her speech, "Ain't I a Woman?", at the Women's Rights Convention in 1851.

7. Life of Sojourner Truth highlighted in Hudson Heritage ... - AOL

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   Sojourner Truth, human rights activist, delivered her famous "Ain't I a Woman" speech in Akron. This speech will be dramatized during the HHA program Life of Sojourner Truth highlighted in Hudson ...

8. Akron's Sojourner Truth Plaza featured in March edition of ...

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   Akron's Sojourner Truth Project and Legacy Plaza has made its way into the national spotlight as a project that highlights Women's History Month, a commemoration held in March every year ...

9. Frances Titus - Wikipedia

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   Titus also wrote updates to the 1878 and 1884 versions, using newspaper clippings, letters, and other documents that Truth had collected. She edited the book to place Truth in a more favorable light and removed some information about Truth's birth and speculated that she was 20 years older than originally thought, which helped fuel legends ...