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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. Ain't I a Woman? - Wikipedia

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   This later, better known and more widely available version was the one commonly referenced in popular culture and, until historian Nell Irvin Painter's 1996 biography of Truth, by historians as well. 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 ...

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. Category:Sojourner Truth - Wikipedia

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   Ain't I a Woman? (book) B. ... Sojourner Truth (biography) W. Women's Rights Pioneers Monument This page was last edited on 20 November 2024, at 05:25 (UTC ...

7. Statue unveiled at the site where Sojourner Truth gave her ...

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   The statue, created by artist and Akron native Woodrow Nash, shows Truth standing tall, holding a book. The monument sits on top of an impala lily, the national flower of Ghana, where Truth's ...

8. Ain't I a Woman? (book) - Wikipedia

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   Ain't I a Woman? Black Women and Feminism is a 1981 book by bell hooks titled after Sojourner Truth's "Ain't I a Woman?" speech. hooks examines the effect of racism and sexism on Black women, the civil rights movement, and feminist movements from suffrage to the 1970s.

9. ‘Mother, activist, suffragist’: Plaza honoring Sojourner ...

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   The Sojourner Truth Legacy Plaza, which features a statue of the activist and pieces of her legacy, opened on High Street in Akron Wednesday. ‘Mother, activist, suffragist’: Plaza honoring ...