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Hace 5 días · Sojourner Truth (born c. 1797, Ulster county, New York, U.S.—died November 26, 1883, Battle Creek, Michigan) was an African American evangelist and reformer who applied her religious fervour to the abolitionist and women’s rights movements. Isabella was the daughter of slaves and spent her childhood as an abused chattel of several masters.
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Truth was born Isabella Bomfree, a slave in Dutch-speaking Ulster County, New York in 1797. She was bought and sold four times, and subjected to harsh physical labor and violent punishments. In her teens, she was united with another slave with whom she had five children, beginning in 1815. In 1827a year before New Yorks law freeing slaves was to ta...
Truth moved to New York City in 1828, where she worked for a local minister. By the early 1830s, she participated in the religious revivals that were sweeping the state and became a charismatic speaker. In 1843, she declared that the Spirit called on her to preach the truth, renaming herself Sojourner Truth.
In 1851, Truth began a lecture tour that included a womens rights conference in Akron, Ohio, where she delivered her famous Aint I a Woman? speech. In it, she challenged prevailing notions of racial and gender inferiority and inequality by reminding listeners of her combined strength (Truth was nearly six feet tall) and female status. Truth ultimat...
During the 1850s, Truth settled in Battle Creek, Michigan, where three of her daughters lived. She continued speaking nationally and helped slaves escape to freedom. When the Civil War started, Truth urged young men to join the Union cause and organized supplies for black troops. After the war, she was honored with an invitation to the White House ...
Sojourner Truth (/ s oʊ ˈ dʒ ɜːr n ər, ˈ s oʊ dʒ ɜːr n ər /; born Isabella Baumfree; c. 1797 – November 26, 1883) was an American abolitionist and activist for African-American civil rights, women's rights, and alcohol temperance.
3 de abr. de 2014 · Sojourner Truth was an African American abolitionist and women's rights activist best-known for her speech on racial inequalities, "Ain't I a Woman?", delivered extemporaneously in 1851 at the...
29 de oct. de 2009 · Sojourner Truth was an African American evangelist, abolitionist, women’s rights activist and author who was born into slavery before escaping to freedom in 1826. After gaining her freedom,...
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Sojourner Truth fue una destacada activista y defensora de los derechos de las mujeres y de los afroamericanos en el siglo XIX en Estados Unidos. Nació como esclava en Nueva York en 1797 y logró escapar hacia la libertad en 1826.
Sojourner Truth (/soʊ'dʒɜrnɛr 'truːθ/; Swartekill, Nueva York, c. 1797 - Battle Creek, Míchigan, 26 de noviembre de 1883) fue una abolicionista y activista por los derechos de la mujer. [1] Truth nació bajo la esclavitud, pero escapó con su hija en 1826.
