Sojourner Truth (1 ene 1797 año – 26 nov 1883 año)

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The former slave Sojourner Truth was born as Isabella Baumfree/Boumfree, which name she later changed (1843), in 1797. After 29 years of harsh life as a slave she escaped in 1826 together with her daughter and left her other children behind. Throughout her life she fought against slavery and was the 1st black women who won a fight in court against a white men while she lobbied against segregation in Washington. In 1850 she dictated her biography "The Narrative of Sojourner Truth: A Northern Slave" due to the fact that she could not read or write herself. A year later she delivered her famous speech "Aren't I a Woman" and went on a lecture tour throughout the country (Women’s Rights Conference in Akron, Ohio: Ain’t I a Woman? speech). Moreover, she was confident to voice her radical views when she demanded the same rights for men and women as well as for white and black people and travelled the country to preach abolition, women's sufferage and Gospel. During the Civil War she encouraged young black men to join the Union 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. Worn out of the constant fighting for black peoples lifes she spend her final years in Michigan and died in 1883.

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