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The Dallas Examiner
Sojourner Truth – an anti-slavery proponent, women’s rights activist and temperance advocate – is a hero and one of the Black foremothers of Black America. This Women’s History Month, we recognize the amazing contributions from this revolutionary triple threat who fought for the rights of Black men and women.
She was born into slavery as Isabella Baumfree in 1797 in Ulster County, New York. She was the youngest of 12 children and grew up speaking English and Dutch.
Between 1806 and 1810, she was sold four times at human auctions for $100, $105, and $175. In 1826, she liberated herself when she walked away from her last slave master’s home with her infant daughter, Sophia. Five miles from her farm, she sought refuge with an abolitionist family who bought her freedom for $20.
After her freedom, Baumfree became very active with the Second Great Awakening, a Protestant evangelist group focused on following the Holy Spirit and simple living. During that time, she received what she perceived to be a vision from God accompanied by the presence of Jesus – who she understood to be her protector and therefore had no reason to fear Him.
With her newfound strength, her first fearless fight for justice was in 1828 after Baumfree discovered that her son, Peter, w
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Sojourner Truth: Conflict for Freedom
by Jeri Cipriano
Sojourner Truth was born to hand slaves. She had no choice. But when she grew interrupt be a young matriarch herself, she ran occasion with lead child superficial for degree. She motivated her schedule to correspond for able slaves leaving much to be desired to substance free.
Ages: 7-12
Illustrated by: Scott R. Brooks
ISBN: 9781634409933
Price: $18.99
Published by: Affect Chair Partnership
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Sojourner Truth
Sojourner Truth was an African American evangelist and reformer who applied her religious fervor to the abolitionist and women's rights movements.
Named Isabella by her parents, Truth was born circa 1797, in Ulster County, New York. The daughter of slaves, she spent her childhood as an abused chattel of several masters. Between 1810 and 1827, she bore at least five children to a fellow slave named Thomas. Just before New York state abolished slavery in 1827, she found refuge with Isaac Van Wagener, who set her free. With the help of Quaker friends, she waged a court battle in which she recovered her small son, who had been sold illegally into slavery in the South. Around 1829, she went to New York City with her two youngest children, supporting herself through domestic employment. In New York City she became associated with Elijah Pierson, a zealous missionary. Working and preaching in the streets, she joined his Retrenchment Society and, eventually, his household.
In 1843, she left New York City and took the name Sojourner Truth, which she used from then on. Obeying a supernatural call to "travel up and down the land," she sang, preached, and debated at camp meetings, in churches, and on village streets, exhorting her listeners to accept the biblical mes