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.
Today's tour takes us back to western New York, circa 1848, when the first American women's rights convention was held in Seneca Falls.
This History Channel exhibit is divided into three sections: History (a synopsis of 220 years of women's rights in America), Timeline (important events from 1777 to 1997) and Firsts.
At the 1848 Seneca Falls convention, "the delegates adopted a platform that called for a broad range of social, economic, legal, and political reforms that would dramatically raise the status of women in American life.
These thirty-eight suffrage-era pictures are part of the Library of Congress' By Popular Demand program to digitize their most frequently requested holdings and place them online.
The efforts of the suffragists went beyond petitions and parades.
Consisting of excerpts from a recently published book, this site is both well-illustrated and well-written.
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