Isabella Baumfree (Sojourner Truth)
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- 1806 - 1810 - Isabella was sold as a slave at the age of 9 and then again at the age of 13
- SOLD! for 100$
- 1827-28 - Successfully sues a white man for illegally selling her son Peter out of state.
- Guilty
- 1850 - Sojourner dictates her autobiography, The Narrative of Sojourner Truth.
- My name is Sojourner Truth
- Sojourner Truth was born Isabella Baumfree in 1797 to enslaved parents James and Elizabeth Baumfree, in Ulster County, New York. Around age nine, she was sold at an auction to John Neely for $100, along with a flock of sheep. She was sold two more times by age 13 and ultimately ended up at the West Park, New York, home of John Dumont and his second wife Elizabeth.
- 1851 - Delivers the famous "Ain't I a Woman" speech in Akron, OH.
- Ain't I a woman?
- After the New York Anti-Slavery Law was passed, Dumont illegally sold Isabella’s five-year-old son Peter. With the help of the Van Wagenens, she filed a lawsuit to get him back. Months later, Isabella won her case and regained custody of her son. She was the first Black woman to sue a white man in a United States court and prevail.
- 1864 - Visits President Abraham Lincoln at the White House.
- At age 46, Isabella adopted the name Sojourner Truth, left New York and traveled to Springfield, Mass. Sojourner dictated her autobiography, The Narrative of Sojourner Truth. It was published by William Lloyd Garrison. She spoke at the first national Woman's Rights Convention, in Worcester, MA.
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- ISABELLA BAUMFREESOJOURNER TRUTH WOMENS RIGHT ACTIVIST ABOLISHIONISTMade by: Kashvi Shah
- Sojourner Truth delivered a now famous speech at the 1851 Women's Rights convention in Akron Ohio.
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XilHJc9IZvE
- Truth visited President Abraham Lincoln at the White House and said, "I must say, and I am proud to say, that I never was treated by anyone with more kindness and politeness than were shown to me by that great and good man, Abraham Lincoln."
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