Sojourner Truth

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Sojourner Truth was a formerly enslaved African American abolitionist and women’s rights advocate best known for her powerful “Ain’t I a Woman?” speech and her tireless activism for racial and gender equality.

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instanceOf African American
abolitionist
human
public speaker
women's rights activist
advocatedFor abolition of slavery
prison reform
property rights for women
racial equality
women's rights
alsoKnownAs Isabella Van Wagenen
associatedWith Frederick Douglass
Harriet Beecher Stowe
women's rights leaders in the 19th-century United States
autobiographyPublished 1850
birthName Sojourner Truth self-linksurface differs
surface form: Isabella Baumfree
causeOfDeath old age
commemoratedBy Sojourner Truth Memorial in Florence, Massachusetts
commemoratedOn U.S. postage stamp
countryOfBirth United States of America
countryOfDeath United States of America
dateOfBirth 1797
dateOfDeath 1883-11-26
dateOfEvent 1851
enslaved yes
ethnicity African American
event delivered “Ain’t I a Woman?” speech
freedFromSlavery 1826
gaveSpeechAt Ohio Women's Rights Convention, Akron, Ohio
gender female
hasAutobiography Narrative of Sojourner Truth
honoredIn National Women’s Hall of Fame
surface form: National Women's Hall of Fame
languageOfWorkOrName English
legacy symbol of intersectional struggle for racial and gender equality
legalStatusAtBirth enslaved person
movement abolitionism
first-wave feminism
women's suffrage movement in the United States
notableAction successfully sued for the return of her son from slavery
notableFirst first Black woman to win a court case against a white man in the United States
notableWork Ain’t I a Woman? Black Women and Feminism
surface form: “Ain’t I a Woman?” speech
numberOfChildren 5
occupation abolitionist
author
orator
women's rights advocate
placeOfBirth Town of Rochester, New York
surface form: Kingston, New York area

Swartekill, Ulster County, New York
placeOfDeath Battle Creek
surface form: Battle Creek, Michigan
religion Christianity
religiousDenomination Methodism
residence Battle Creek
surface form: Battle Creek, Michigan

Massachusetts
New York
surface form: New York State
spouse Thomas (enslaved husband)
subjectOf Sojourner Truth bust in the U.S. Capitol
supportedBy Northern abolitionists

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women's suffrage movement hasKeyFigure Sojourner Truth
African-American history hasKeyFigure Sojourner Truth
Plymouth Church, Brooklyn hostedSpeaker Sojourner Truth
bell hooks influencedBy Sojourner Truth
Sojourner Truth birthName Sojourner Truth self-linksurface differs
this entity surface form: Isabella Baumfree
A is for Abigail notableFigureIncluded Sojourner Truth
Sojourner namedAfter Sojourner Truth
Ain’t I a Woman? Black Women and Feminism titleInspiredBy Sojourner Truth
this entity surface form: Sojourner Truth’s “Ain’t I a Woman?” speech