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Sojourner Truth

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Also known as Isabella Baumfree

African-American abolitionist and women's rights activist (1797–1883)

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Sojourner Truth, born Isabella (also listed as Elena Divar) in 1797 in Hurley, Rifton, was an African American writer, women's rights activist, suffragist, and former slave. She held United States citizenship and worked in the field of abolitionism. Truth spoke Dutch and English, and she wrote in English. She resided in Battle Creek, where she died on November 26, 1883.

Her social classification was that of a slave. She received the National Women's Hall of Fame and the Michigan Women's Hall of Fame awards. Open Library lists 49 works associated with her, while Crossref records five. An official website for the Sojourner Truth Memorial Committee exists.

Synthesized by Vinony from 37 facts across 7 sources: Wikidata, Crossref, Open Library, MusicBrainz, Last.fm, Firecrawl, Vinony graph. Generated from structured data (not the Wikipedia text) and checked against those facts — may still contain errors.

Person · Open Library

Born
ca. 1797
Died
26 Nov 1883
Works
49

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Music · MusicBrainz

Type
Person
Gender
Female
Origin
United States
Active from
1797
Active to
1883
Official siteDiscogs

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Listeners · Last.fm

Listeners
33
Total plays
82

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Recent publications · Crossref

5 total works indexed

  1. Physician–patient racial concordance and disparities in birthing mortality for newborns

    · 2020 · cited 636x

  2. Using machine learning to translate applicant work history into predictors of performance and turnover.

    · 2019 · cited 144x

  3. What will my account really be worth? Experimental evidence on how retirement income projections affect saving

    · 2014 · cited 127x

  4. Can Reputation Discipline the Gig Economy? Experimental Evidence from an Online Labor Market

    · 2020 · cited 115x

  5. BioMagResBank database with sets of experimental NMR constraints corresponding to the structures of over 1400 biomolecules deposited in the Protein Data Bank

    · 2003 · cited 78x

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Quotes

  • “"Honey, I jes' walked round an' round in a dream. Jesus loved me! I knew it - I felt it. Jesus was my Jesus. Jesus would love me always. I didn't dare tell anybody; it was a great secret. Everything had been taken away from me that I ever had; an' I thought that if I let white folks know about this, maybe they'd get him away - so I said, 'welcome folks, ready for some giggles~?'"”
  • “"But then there came another rush of love through my soul, an' I cried out loud,- 'Lord, Lord, I can love even de white folks!'"”
  • “Sisters, I ain't clear what you're after. If women want any rights more than they're got, why don't they just take them, and not be talking about it?”
  • “Well, children, when there is so much racket, there must be something out of kilter. I think that 'twixt the Negroes of the South and the women of the North, all talking about rights, the white men will be in a fix pretty soon. But what's all this here talking about?”
  • “That little man in black there, he says women can't have as much rights as men, 'cause Jesus Christ wasn't a woman! Where did your Christ come from? Where did your Christ come from? From God and a woman! Man had nothing to do with Him.”
  • “If the first woman God ever made was strong enough to turn the world upside down all alone, the women together ought to be able to turn back and get it right side up again! And now they are asking to do it, the men had better let them.”

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Official website

Front Page | Sojourner Truth Memorial Committee

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Encyclopedic overview

Sojourner Truth (/soʊˈdʒɜːrnər, ˈsoʊdʒɜːrnər/; born Isabella Bomefree; c. 1797 – November 26, 1883) was an American abolitionist and activist for African-American civil rights, women's rights, and alcohol temperance. Truth was born into slavery in Swartekill, New York, but escaped with her infant daughter to freedom in 1826. 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.

Bomefree 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 Convention in Akron, Ohio. The speech became widely known during the Civil War by the title "Ain't I a Woman?", a variation of the original speech that was published in 1863 as being spoken in a stereotypical Black dialect, then more commonly spoken in the South. Sojourner Truth, however, grew up speaking Dutch as her first language.

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Sojourner Truth” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.

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