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- jjjjjjjjjtrutTruth's Early Life of Abuse and Enslavement
- Sojourner Truth, born Isabella Baumfree, was born in 1797 to enslaved parents in New York. She was a prominent abolitionist, evangelist, and women's rights activist. She was sold at around age 9 to John Neely for $100, a monsterous man who abused her repetitively. Truth was sold two more times by age 13. By age 18. she found love, with an enslaved man on another plantation, but they couldn't marry and her owners forced her to marry another man on their plantation.
- What did I do to deserve this? Why is my life like this? I should be free and not serving some person who doesn't even see me as a human. How is this living?
- I hereby order you, Mr. Gedney to return Ms. Baumfree's child! This case is now closed!
- Sojourner Truth made history once again when she won the court case against her son's 'owner', Solomon Gedney. Her former owner, John Dumont, illegally sold her five year-old son, Peter. Truth along with the help of Van Wagenens filed a lawsuit to regain custody of her child. When the judge ruled in her favor on the case in 1828. She became the first black woman to successfully sue a white man and win.
- Truth becomes the first black woman to win a court case against a white man
- He bought my child and held him as a slave! I can't get him back! This isn't legal and isn't just! Peter is just a small child!
- Ain't I a woman just because I have a different skin color? Why am I to be treated like I'm something other than a woman? Aint I a woman?
- Sojourner Truth is best known for her 'Ain't I A Woman' speech. She gave this speech at the 1851 Women's Rights Convention at Ohio. She both saw and experienced the inequities of a black woman between a white woman and how they were treated so horribly differently. In this speech she spoke powerfully about the dire need of equality among ALL women regardless of skin tone. This speech caused great controversy and is regarded as a monument in the abolitionist movement.
- Truth gives her 'Ain't I A Woman Speech'
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