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Born Isabella Baumfree, Sojourner Truth was an abolitionist and women's rights activist. She is best known for her speech on racial inequalities, "Ain't I a Woman?" delivered at the Ohio Women's Rights Convention in 1851.
Born Isabella Baumfree, Sojourner Truth was an abolitionist and women's rights activist. She is best known for her speech on racial inequalities, "Ain't I a Woman?" delivered at the Ohio Women's Rights Convention in 1851.
"If the first woman God ever made was strong enough to turn the world upside down all alone, these women together ought to be able to turn it back, and get it right side up again! And now they is asking to do it, the men better let them.”
"Then that little man in black there, he says women can't have as much rights as men, 'cause Christ wasn't a woman! Where did your Christ come from? Where did Christ come from? From God and a woman! Man had nothing to do with Him.”
“If women want rights more than they got, why don’t they just take them, and not be talking about it.”
She was the FIRST Black woman to sue a white man in a United States court and prevail. She regained custody of her son, Peter.
