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Quick facts for kids Sojourner Truth | |
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c. 1870 | |
| Born | Isabella Baumfree c. 1797 Swartekill, New York, United States |
| Died | (aged 86) Battle Creek, Michigan, United States |
| Occupation | Abolitionist, author, human rights activist |
| Parent(s) | James Baumfree Elizabeth Baumfree |
Sojourner Truth ( born Isabella Baumfree; c.
1797 – November 26, 1883) was an American abolitionist of New York Dutch heritage and a women's rights activist. Truth was born into slavery in Swartekill, New York, but escaped with her infant daughter to freedom in 1826.
After going to court to recover her son in 1828, she became the first black woman to win such a case against a white man.
She gave herself the name Sojourner Truth in 1843 after she became convinced that God had called her to leave the city and go into the countryside "testifying the hope that was in her." Her best-known speech was delivered extemporaneously, in 1851, at the Ohio Women's