Sojourner Truth
"Slave and Abolitionist"
Born Isabella Baumfree in 1797 she was the daughter of slave parents, and a slave herself. Was sold away from her family at the age of eleven and resold many times after that. Freed with the help of Isaac Van Wagener in 1827, she worked in New York as a servant in religious homes. Convinced she had heard a voice from God she began to preach in the streets with Elijah Pierson. In 1843 she changed her name to Sojourner Truth because she wanted to travel and tell the truth about God.
Truth was an abolitionist, a suffragist; she spoke for prison reform, and she also addressed the Michigan Legislature against capital punishment. In her lifetime she had the privilege of working with prominent figures such as Frederick Douglas, William Lloyd Garrison, and Olive Gilbert. Truth continued speaking against what she believed to be wrong and was very involved in her work until illness fell upon her and no longer allowed her to keep on preaching and helping the women’s suffrage movement.
SOJOURNER’S QUOTES:
“If women want any rights more than they's got, why don't they just take them, and not be talking about it.”
“It is the mind that makes the body.”
“Religion without humanity is very poor human stuff.”
BOOKS ABOUT SOJOURNER:
-Truth Sojourner, Helen Frost
-Truth Sojourner: A life symbol, Nell Irvin Painter
Born Isabella Baumfree in 1797 she was the daughter of slave parents, and a slave herself. Was sold away from her family at the age of eleven and resold many times after that. Freed with the help of Isaac Van Wagener in 1827, she worked in New York as a servant in religious homes. Convinced she had heard a voice from God she began to preach in the streets with Elijah Pierson. In 1843 she changed her name to Sojourner Truth because she wanted to travel and tell the truth about God.
Truth was an abolitionist, a suffragist; she spoke for prison reform, and she also addressed the Michigan Legislature against capital punishment. In her lifetime she had the privilege of working with prominent figures such as Frederick Douglas, William Lloyd Garrison, and Olive Gilbert. Truth continued speaking against what she believed to be wrong and was very involved in her work until illness fell upon her and no longer allowed her to keep on preaching and helping the women’s suffrage movement.
SOJOURNER’S QUOTES:
“If women want any rights more than they's got, why don't they just take them, and not be talking about it.”
“It is the mind that makes the body.”
“Religion without humanity is very poor human stuff.”
BOOKS ABOUT SOJOURNER:
-Truth Sojourner, Helen Frost
-Truth Sojourner: A life symbol, Nell Irvin Painter
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