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Sojourner Truth
Struggle to Freedom- Eventually she was sold to a fisherman who owned a tavern in Kingston, New York. The next man who had baought her was Johm J. Dumont, a nearby plantation \owner. While she was there she married
Birth- Date- 1797 Place- Uister, New York Name- Isabella Baumfree Death- Date- November 26th 1883 Place- Battle Creek, Michigan Early Life- She was born at a Dutch partroon, where her parents were slaves. The first language she spoke was Dutch. At the age of 9 Isabella was auctioned off to an englishman name John Nealy. The Nealy's understood little of her Dutch language because of this she wasoften punished for no real reason at all.
Thomas, and had five children who where all sold away from her. When slavery was declared illegal in New York, Dumont told her she had to stay and work another year. She than ran away, and Maria Van Wagener took her in. With the help of her new found Quaker friends she sued Dumont and got back her son Peter, who had illegally been sold to an Alabama Planter.
Speaches and Religion- In New York she met Elija Pierson, who's main work was working with prostitues. Isabella joined him and his wife in walking around the streets of New York and preaching. In 1943 she became an itinerant minister, traveling around Connecticut River valley to preach, sing, pray, and evangelize at camp meetings, in churches, or wherever she could find shelter and an audience. She often saId that "God is from everlasting to everlasting" and that "thruth
Truth moved with her daughters to Battle Creek, Michigan, a center of religious and antislavery reform movements. She worked met president Abraham Lincoln and worked on many freed' slave relief projects, such as Freedmen's Hospital and the Freedmen's Village at Arlington Heights. While most male and black abolitionists agreed with Frederick Douglass that Reconstruction was the "Negro's hour" and that women should not imperil black suffrage by insisting on women's suffrage immediately, Truth was working as hard as she could to work with both sides in getting negros there rights as well as agreeing with the white women abiolisionist in removing the world "male" from the Forteenth
Amendment.At an 1867 equal rights convention she noted that in debates over enfranchising black men, no one had thought about black women. She had told them "colored men will be masters over the women, and it will be just as bad as it was before". After the Emancipation Proclamation was signed into law in 1863, Truth continued to support her people, aiding refugee slaves in the greater Washington, D.C. area.
burns up error."She often believe that god was wverywhere and that all beings live in him as "fishes in the sea." Truth's "Ar'n't I a Woman?" speech at the Akron Women's Rights Convention in 1850 has gone down in history as one of the most significant expressions of the combined abolitionist and women's rights movement.
Sort Citation : "Sojourner Truth." Feminist Writers. St. James Press, 1996. Reproduced in Biography Resource Center. Farmington Hills, Mich.: Gale, 2010. http://galenet.galegroup.com/servlet/BioRC "Sojourner Truth." Notable Black American Women, Book 1. Gale Research, 1992. Reproduced in Biography Resource Center. Farmington Hills, Mich.: Gale, 2010. http://galenet.galegroup.com/servlet/BioRC "Sojourner Truth." American Eras, Volume 7: Civil War and Reconstruction, 1850-1877. Gale Research, 1997. Reproduced in Biography Resource Center. Farmington Hills, Mich.: Gale, 2010. http://galenet.galegroup.com/servlet/BioRC
