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(c. 1797 — November 26th, 1883)
Sojourner Truth (born Isabella Baumfree) was an American activist who worked to abolish slavery and to promote women’s suffrage. Truth was born into slavery but escaped to freedom with her infant daughter in1826. She also recovered her son from a slave owner, and became the first Black woman to win such a case against a white man.
Sojourner Truth is a book author.
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A modern reader will perhaps be struck by the religious bent of her speeches and arguments that hinge on some outdated ideas, but it’s important to realize that Truth was an essential starting point for the fight for equality for women and for suffrage. She was the beginning of the evolution of what that fight became and how it continued.
