Sojourner Truth

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Sojourner Truth

• By Kassie Sorensen
• And
• Brooklyn Privett

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• Sojourner Truth was born a slave in upstate
  New York in approximately 1779. She went to
  Northampton in 1843 to live at the Northampton
  Association of Education and Industry, a utopian
  community in Florence. She labored for a
  succession of five masters until the the Forth of
  July, 1827, when slavery was finally abolished
  in New York State. Sojourner Truth was a
  powerful speaker and singer.

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• Sojourner Truths real name was Isabella
  Baumfree. She was sold from her family when she
  was around eleven. She was sold many times until
  her freedom in 1827. Sojourner Truth traveled
  throughout the north preaching emancipation and
  women's rights.

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• Sojourner Truth and another fellow slave
  named Thomas had 4 possibly 5 children. She gave
  the speech, Aint I a Woman, in 1851 at the
  Womens Rights Convention in Ohio. Sojourner
  Truth died in 1883 at an old age. She was buried
  in Battle Creek.

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• Sojourner Truths fight for womens rights,
  the abolition of slavery, and her attempt to help
  former slaves, has made her a legend in American
  History. Despite the fears of slavery and the
  inability to read, she was able to become a
  influential public speaker.