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Sojourner Truth (/ s oʊ ˈ dʒ ɜːr n ər, ˈ s oʊ dʒ ɜːr n ər /; [1] born Isabella Baumfree; c. 1797 – November 26, 1883) was an American abolitionist and activist for African-American civil rights, women's rights, and alcohol temperance. [2]
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 ...
Secretary of Sojourner Truth as well as a founder of a school for freed slave men Frances W. Titus (1816-1894) was an American abolitionist and suffragist who is best known for being the confidante, secretary, tour director, financial manager, and editor of Sojourner Truth's biography, Narrative of Sojourner Truth.
On May 29, 1851, Sojourner Truth delivered her famous speech at the Women’s Rights Convention in Akron, Ohio. Her speech was passionate and powerful, and it called out white men for being ...
The Smithsonian magazine recently featured a 12-page spread on the Sojourner Truth Plaza, a project which will be open to the public in late May. ... Nash created an 18-inch miniature version of ...
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 ...
Sojourner Truth's version of the song, "The Valiant Soldiers," which appears in the 1878, 1881, and 1884 editions of her Narrative, is almost identical to Silber's edition of the "Marching Song," containing stanzas one through five plus stanza seven. Only the first line of the first stanza is different: "We are the valiant soldiers who've ...
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 ...