Sojourner truth childrens biography beethoven

Sojourner Truth

Truth was born Isabella Baumfree in 17971 and born into a slave family in New York. She was sold at 11 years old along with a herd of sheep for $100. She suffered abuse as a slave and escaped to freedom, taking her infant daughter with her.

She became an avid voice for the freedom of slaves and women’s rights and this was unusual during a time when neither Black Americans, but especially not Black American women spoke up.

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She decided to take the self-given name of Sojourner Truth in 1843.

Sojourner’s life as a young woman and a slave didn’t allow her to marry the man, also a slave that she loved. Instead, her owner made her marry another slave.

Truth was one of the most powerful people in the abolitionist movement and when the State of New York freed all of the slaves in 1827, she became a vocal member to carry the message of freedom. When she found out that her son, whom she had left behind, had been sold to another slave owner, she became the first Black woma