Events
Isabella (Sojourner Truth) is born into
slavery in New York.Isabella escapes from the Dumonts (slave owners)
f with her daughter, Sophia.Isabella believes that God appears to her,
which motivates her to change her name to Sojourner TruthTruth becomes involved in the women's rights movement.Truth gives her "Ain't I a Women" speech at the Women's
Rights Convention in Akron, Ohio.The U.S Civil War begins.Congress passes the Thirteenth amendment, which frees
all enslaved people in the United States.Truth dies in Battle Creek, Michigan, in her mid eighties.Sojourner dictates her autobiography, The Narrative of Sojourner Truth.
It is published by William Lloyd Garrison. She speaks at the first national Women's Rights Convention,
in Worcester, MA. She is the only African-American present.Sojourner Truth visits President Abraham Lincoln at the White House.
Sojourner said, "I must say, and I am proud to say, that I never was treated by anyone with more
kindness and politeness than were shown to me by that great and good man, Abraham Lincoln."Moves from Harmonia into Battle Creek, converting Merritt "barn" on College Street into her house.The Louisana Purchase is made.The United States passes the Chinese Exclusion Act.
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