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Sojourner Truth (1797-1883)
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Sojourner Truth, née Isabella Baumfree, was born a slave in New York, in 1797. After being freed she changed her
name to Sojourner Truth and became a traveling preacher, speaking out for human rights in the American Midwest
and the East.
At an Ohio women's rights convention in 1850, she delivered her famous impassioned speech, "Ain't I A Woman"
asserting that women deserved the same rights as men. With the power of personal testimony, Sojourner Truth made
vital contributions to the fight for racial and gender equality.
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