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Thank you, my friend Maj Marty Hogan for making us aware that December 1 is the anniversary of the birth of African-American abolitionist and women's rights activist Sojourner Truth (born Isabella [Belle] Baumfree) "was born into slavery in Swartekill, Ulster County, New York, but escaped with her infant daughter to freedom in 1826."
Rest in peace Sojourner Truth.

Sojourner Truth
"Sojourner Truth Quotes, Speech, Biography, Education, Facts, History.
Sojourner Truth (born Isabella ("Bell") Baumfree; c. 1797 – November 26, 1883) was an African-American abolitionist and women's rights activist. Truth was born into slavery in Swartekill, Ulster County, 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. Her best-known speech was delivered extemporaneously, in 1851, at the Ohio Women's Rights Convention in Akron, Ohio. The speech became widely known during the Civil War by the title "Ain't I a Woman?," a variation of the original speech re-written by someone else using a stereotypical Southern dialect; whereas Sojourner Truth was from New York and grew up speaking Dutch as her first language. During the Civil War, Truth helped recruit black troops for the Union Army; after the war, she tried unsuccessfully to secure land grants from the federal government for former slaves."
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZaAQDyUmbJo


Images:
1. Sojourner Truth and Abraham Lincoln, Washington, D.C., October 29, 1864 -painted by Franklin C. Courter (1893)
2. Sojourner Truth 'I sell the shadow to support the substance'
3. Sojourner Truth 'Life is a hard battle anyway. If we laugh and sing a little as we fight the good fight of freedom, it makes it all go easier. I will not allow my life's light to be determined by the darkness around me'.
4. 1976 portion of Michigan State Highway 66 renamed Sojourner Truth Memorial Highway.

Biographies:
1. thoughtco.com/sojourner-truth-biography-3530421
2. womenshistory.org/education-resources/biographies/sojourner-truth

1. Background from thoughtco.com/sojourner-truth-biography-3530421
Biography of Sojourner Truth, Abolitionist and Lecturer
by Jone Johnson Lewis
Updated June 03, 2019
Sojourner Truth (born Isabella Baumfree; c. 1797–November 26, 1883) was a famous African-American abolitionist and women's rights activist. Emancipated from slavery by New York state law in 1827, she served as an itinerant preacher before becoming involved in the anti-slavery and women's rights movements. In 1864, Truth met Abraham Lincoln in his White House office.
Fast Facts: Sojourner Truth
Known For: Truth was an abolitionist and women's rights activist known for her fiery speeches.
Also Known As: Isabella Baumfree
Born: c. 1797 in Swartekill, New York
Parents: James and Elizabeth Baumfree
Died: November 26, 1883 in Battle Creek, Michigan
Published Works: "The Narrative of Sojourner Truth: A Northern Slave" (1850)
Notable Quote: "This is what all suffragists must understand, whatever their sex or color—that all the disfranchised of the earth have a common cause."
Early Life
The woman known as Sojourner Truth was born into slavery in New York as Isabella Baumfree (after her father's owner, Baumfree) in 1797. Her parents were James and Elizabeth Baumfree. She was sold several times, and while enslaved by the John Dumont family in Ulster County, she married Thomas, also enslaved by Dumont and who was many years older than Isabella. The couple had five children together. In 1827, New York law emancipated all slaves. At this point, however, Isabella had already left her husband and run away with her youngest child, going to work for the family of Isaac Van Wagenen.


While working for the Van Wagenens—whose name she used briefly—Isabella discovered that a member of the Dumont family had sold one of her children into slavery in Alabama. Since this son had been emancipated under New York Law, Isabella sued in court and won his return.

Preaching
In New York City, Isabella worked as a servant and attended a white Methodist church and an African Methodist Episcopal Church, where she reunited briefly with three of her older siblings.


Isabella came under the influence of a religious prophet named Matthias in 1832. She then moved to a Methodist perfectionist commune, led by Matthias, where she was the only black member, and few members were of the working class. The commune fell apart a few years later, with allegations of sexual improprieties and even murder. Isabella herself was accused of poisoning another member, and she sued successfully for libel in 1835. She continued her work as a household servant until 1843.
William Miller, a millenarian prophet, predicted that Christ would return in 1843 amid economic turmoil during and after the panic of 1837.
On June 1, 1843, Isabella took the name Sojourner Truth, believing this to be on the instructions of the Holy Spirit. She became a traveling preacher (the meaning of her new name, Sojourner), making a tour of Millerite camps. When the Great Disappointment became clear—the world did not end as predicted—she joined a utopian community, the Northampton Association, founded in 1842 by people interested in abolitionism and women's rights.

Abolitionism
After joining the abolitionist movement, Truth became a popular circuit speaker. She made her first antislavery speech in 1845 in New York City. The commune failed in 1846, and she bought a house on Park Street in New York. She dictated her autobiography to women's rights activist Olive Gilbert and published it in Boston in 1850. Truth used the income from the book, "The Narrative of Sojourner Truth," to pay off her mortgage.
In 1850, she also began speaking about women's suffrage. Her most famous speech, "Ain't I a Woman?," was given in 1851 at a women's rights convention in Ohio. The speech—which addressed the ways in which Truth was oppressed for being both black and a woman—remains influential today.
Truth eventually met Harriet Beecher Stowe, who wrote about her for the Atlantic Monthly and wrote a new introduction to Truth's autobiography.
Later, Truth moved to Michigan and joined yet another religious commune, this one associated with the Friends. She was at one point friendly with Millerites, a religious movement that grew out of Methodism and later became the Seventh Day Adventists.

Civil War
During the Civil War, Truth raised food and clothing contributions for black regiments, and she met Abraham Lincoln at the White House in 1864 (the meeting was arranged by Lucy N. Colman and Elizabeth Keckley). During her White House visit, she tried to challenge the discriminatory policy of segregating street cars by race. Truth was also an active member of the National Freedman's Relief Association.
After the war ended, Truth again traveled and gave lectures, advocating for some time for a "Negro State" in the west. She spoke mainly to white audiences and mostly on religion, the rights of African-Americans and women, and temperance, though immediately after the Civil War she tried to organize efforts to provide jobs for black refugees from the war.

Death
Truth remained active in politics until 1875, when her grandson and companion fell ill and died. She then returned to Michigan, where her health deteriorated. She died in 1883 in a Battle Creek sanitorium of infected ulcers on her legs. Truth was buried in Battle Creek, Michigan, after a well-attended funeral.

Legacy
Truth was a major figure in the abolitionist movement, and she has been widely celebrated for her work. In 1981, she was inducted into the National Women's Hall of Fame, and in 1986 the U.S. Postal Service issued a stamp in her honor. In 2009, a bust of Truth was placed in the U.S. Capitol. Her autobiography is read in classrooms throughout the country.

Sources
Bernard, Jacqueline. "Journey Toward Freedom: The Story of Sojourney Truth." Price Stern Sloan, 1967.
Saunders Redding, "Sojourner Truth" in "Notable American Women 1607-1950 Volume III P-Z." Edward T. James, editor. Janet Wilson James and Paul S. Boyer, assistant editors. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Belknap Press, 1971.
Stetson, Erlene, and Linda David. "Glorying in Tribulation: The Lifework of Sojourner Truth." Michigan State University Press, 1994.
Truth, Sojourner. "The Narrative of Sojourner Truth: a Northern Slave." Dover Publications Inc., 1997."

2. Background from womenshistory.org/education-resources/biographies/sojourner-truth
"Sojourner Truth 1797-1883
Edited by Debra Michals, PhD | 2015
A former slave, Sojourner Truth became an outspoken advocate for abolition, temperance, and civil and women’s rights in the nineteenth century. Her Civil War work earned her an invitation to meet President Abraham Lincoln in 1864.

Truth was born Isabella Bomfree, a slave in Dutch-speaking Ulster County, New York in 1797. She was bought and sold four times, and subjected to harsh physical labor and violent punishments. In her teens, she was united with another slave with whom she had five children, beginning in 1815. In 1827—a year before New York’s law freeing slaves was to take effect—Truth ran away with her infant Sophia to a nearby abolitionist family, the Van Wageners. The family bought her freedom for twenty dollars and helped Truth successfully sue for the return of her five-year-old-son Peter, who was illegally sold into slavery in Alabama.

Truth moved to New York City in 1828, where she worked for a local minister. By the early 1830s, she participated in the religious revivals that were sweeping the state and became a charismatic speaker. In 1843, she declared that the Spirit called on her to preach the truth, renaming herself Sojourner Truth.

As an itinerant preacher, Truth met abolitionists William Lloyd Garrison and Frederick Douglass. Garrison’s anti-slavery organization encouraged Truth to give speeches about the evils of slavery. She never learned to read or write. In 1850, she dictated what would become her autobiography—The Narrative of Sojourner Truth—to Olive Gilbert, who assisted in its publication. Truth survived on sales of the book, which also brought her national recognition. She met women’s rights activists, including Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony, as well as temperance advocates—both causes she quickly championed.

In 1851, Truth began a lecture tour that included a women’s rights conference in Akron, Ohio, where she delivered her famous “Ain’t I a Woman?” speech. In it, she challenged prevailing notions of racial and gender inferiority and inequality by reminding listeners of her combined strength (Truth was nearly six feet tall) and female status. Truth ultimately split with Douglass, who believed suffrage for formerly enslaved men should come before women’s suffrage; she thought both should occur simultaneously.

During the 1850’s, Truth settled in Battle Creek, Michigan, where three of her daughters lived. She continued speaking nationally and helped slaves escape to freedom. When the Civil War started, Truth urged young men to join the Union cause and organized supplies for black troops. After the war, she was honored with an invitation to the White House and became involved with the Freedmen’s Bureau, helping freed slaves find jobs and build new lives. While in Washington, DC, she lobbied against segregation, and in the mid 1860s, when a streetcar conductor tried to violently block her from riding, she ensured his arrest and won her subsequent case. In the late 1860s, she collected thousands of signatures on a petition to provide former slaves with land, though Congress never took action. Nearly blind and deaf towards the end of her life, Truth spent her final years in Michigan."

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