Sojourner Truth (born Isabella Baumfree) was one of the best-known abolitionists of the nineteenth century. Born a slave in New York in approximately 1797, she was freed in 1828.
Although Sojourner Truth never learned to read or write, she dictated this autobiography to Olive Gilbert, a white abolitionist.
The Sojourner Truth Institute of Battle Creek, MI, has a terrific collection of resources for students of all grade levels.
In 1843, Sojourner Truth moved to Massachusetts where she lived in and near Florence for eight years, and where she now has a memorial statue.
Sojourner Truth was born in Ulster County, upstate New York at the end of the eighteenth century.
This biographical vignette is published by Women in History, a non-profit project that brings history to life with live performances of historical monologues and online biographies.
In the past few decades, African Americans have begun to uncover a history that was largely discarded, overlooked, and ignored.
from National Park Service
Introduction [The Dirksen Congressional Center]
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