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- Shortly after her escape, Truth learned that her son Peter, then 5 years old, had been illegally sold to a man in Alabama. She took the issue to court and eventually secured Peter's return from the South. The case was one of the first in which a Black woman successfully challenged a white man in a United States court.
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In a forthcoming book called I Just Keep Talking: A Life in Essays, Painter identifies the probable source of that trouble: “my insistence, my exceedingly painstaking documentation, that ...
- Cynthia Greenlee
Sojourner Truth, African American evangelist and reformer who applied her religious fervor to the abolitionist and women’s rights movements. Obeying a supernatural call to ‘travel up and down the land,’ she sang, preached, and debated throughout the eastern and midwestern U.S.
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
Sojourner Truth (/ soʊˈdʒɜːrnər, ˈsoʊdʒɜːrnər /; [1] 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. [2] Truth was born into slavery in Swartekill, New York, but escaped with her infant daughter to freedom in 1826.
Oct 29, 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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Feb 1, 1999 · A formerly enslaved woman, Sojourner Truth became an outspoken advocate for abolition, temperance, and civil and women’s rights in the nineteenth century. Her Civil War work earned her an invitation to meet President Abraham Lincoln in 1864.
Dec 15, 2023 · Although her past enslavement was legitimized by law, she relied on the law as a means of asserting her rights and even took her claims to court to have them enforced. For example, when she learned that Dumont had illegally sold her 5-year-old son, Peter, out of state, she filed a lawsuit to get her son back, supported by members of the Quaker ...
Apr 3, 2014 · Sojourner Truth was sold at an auction at the age of nine, along with a flock of sheep, for $100. Truth was one of the first Black women to successfully challenge a white man in a United...
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