Sojourner Truth was born between the years of 1797 and 1798 in New York. Sojourner Truth was born as Isabelle Hardenburg. Her name changed from time to time because her last name was always the slaveowners name. Her first name would sometimes change too. Sojourner had many highlights. Read on to find out what she did.
Sojourner Truth was a slave. She worked in the cotton fields year round from dawn to dark. Sojourner could speak both Dutch and English. She was married at age 14 to a slave named Thomas. They had 5 kids together.
After a while, Sojourner ran away to the Von Wageners. Then she fled to a Methodist Mission in 1830 and lived there with Elijah Pierson untill 1835 when he died. Sojourner then lived her life as a wandering evangelist where most people loved her. She wrote a book on her life entitled The Narrative of Sojourner Truth. In the 1840s she traveled with an anti slavery lecture circut.
Fredrick Douglas seriously doubted an end to slavery and when he was making a speech Truth aked "Fredrick, is God dead?'' This line made her famous. From then on Sojourner began lecturing at Women's suffrage gatherings where she made a famous speech called "Aint I a Woman?'' Lots of people hated seeing a black person doing it but that didn't stop her.
During the civil war, Sojourner worked with freed slaves whose children were being kidnapped and taken back to be slaves. After the war Truth worked for Freedom Relief Association which was a resettlement for blacks in the west.
Sojourner Truth died in 1883 in Battle Creek, Michigan. She was known for fighting for women's and black people's rights.
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