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Sojourner Truth’s “Ain’t I a Woman?” speech
Sojourner Truth delivered her “Ain’t I a Woman?” speech at a statewide women’s rights convention in Ohio.
Glossary Term – Event
Isabella Van Wagener became Sojourner Truth
Former slave Isabella Van Wagener assumed the name Sojourner Truth and began her career as an abolitionist.
Glossary Term – Person
Sojourner Truth
Sojourner Truth (ca. 1797–1883) was an evangelist, abolitionist, and women’s rights advocate. She was born into slavery under the name Isabella Baumfree in New York. In 1826, just before slavery was abolished in New York, she escaped her owner and eventually made her way to New York City, where she associated with a group of zealous evangelicals. In 1843, Isabella felt called to God’s service and took the name Sojourner Truth. She left New York and traveled to Northampton, Massachusetts. There she met reformers such as William Lloyd...
Teaching Resource
Woman Abolitionists
Background
Women always played a significant role in the struggle against slavery and discrimination. White and black Quaker women and female slaves took a strong moral stand against slavery. As abolitionists, they circulated petitions, wrote letters and poems, and published articles in the leading anti-slavery periodicals such as the Liberator. Some of these women educated blacks, both free and enslaved, and some of them joined the American Anti-Slavery Society and founded their own biracial organization, the Philadelphia...