![]() ![]() ![]() 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 to the hope that was in her." Her best-known speech was delivered extemporaneously, in 1851, at the Ohio Women's Rights Convention in Akron, Ohio. ![]() 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. Truth was born into slavery in Swartekill, New York, but escaped with her infant daughter to freedom in 1826. 1797 – November 26, 1883) was an American abolitionist and activist for African-American civil rights, women's rights, and alcohol temperance. Sojourner Truth ( / s oʊ ˈ dʒ ɜːr n ər, ˈ s oʊ dʒ ɜːr n ər/ born Isabella Baumfree c. ![]()
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