Sojourner Truth
ojourner Truth (/soʊˈdʒɜːrnər ˈtruːθ/; born Isabella [Belle]
Baumfree; c. 1797 – November 26, 1883) was an African-American
abolitionist and women's rights activist. Truth was born into
slavery in Swartekill, Ulster County, New York, but escaped with
her infant daughter to freedom in 1826. After going to court to
recover her son in 1828, she became the first black woman to win
such a case against a white man.
She gave herself the name Sojourner Truth in 1843 after she became
convinced that
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