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Sojourner Truth

Timeline

Topic

Sojourner Truth was born Isabella Baumfree in 1797 to enslaved parents James and Elizabeth Baumfree, in Ulster County, New York

Birth

Birth

Escape

Death

Isabella escapes to freedom with infant daughter, Sophia.

"Isabella Baumfree (Sojourner Truth) born into slavery on the Hardenbergh estate, Ulster County, NY to a poor family."¹

Sojourner Truth died in Battle Creek, Michigan on November 26, 1883.

1883

1797

1826

Marriage

1817

1851

Speech

"Isabella fell in love with an enslaved person named Robert from a neighboring farm. Robert's owner, John Dumont did not approve the relationship and so all children born to them where property of John. In 1817, Dumont force Truth to marry an older enslaved person named Thomas and gave birth to 3 children."⁴

Delivers the famous "Ain't I a Woman speech"² in Akron, OH

Facts

  • Sojourner Truth was born as a slave and therefore was not formally educated.
  • Truth faced slavery, illiteracy, penury and prejudice.
  • When she escaped to freedom, she said that she walked away rather than "escape".
  • Truth sued Dumont for illegally selling her son and won.
  • In 1844, Truth joined a Massachusetts abolitionist organization called the Northampton Association of Education and Industry where she met Frederick Douglass.³

Citations

  • Michals, Edited by Debra. Biography: Sojourner Truth, www.womenshistory.org/education-resources/biographies/sojourner-truth.
  • 2. “Sojourner Truth.” Biography.com, A&E

Networks Television, 6 Jan. 2021, www.biography.com/activist/sojourner-truth#.

  • 3. History.com Editors. “Sojourner Truth.” History.com, A&E Television Networks, 29 Oct. 2009, www.history.com/topics/black-history/sojourner-truth.
  • 4. Biography.com. (2021, January 6). Sojourner truth. Biography.com. Retrieved April 25, 2022, from https://www.biography.com/activist/sojourner-truth

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