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Sojourner Truth

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Sojourner Truth
Sojourner Truth
BornIsabella Baumfree
c. 1797
Swartekill, New York
Dee'dNovember 26, 1883
Battle Creek, Michigan
NaitionalityAmerican
PawrentsJames Baumfree
Elizabeth Baumfree

Sojourner Truth (c. 1797 – 26 November 1883) wis the sel-gien name, frae 1843, o Isabella Baumfree, an African-American abolitionist an weemeen's richts activist. Truth wis born intae sclavery in Swartekill, New York. Her maist faur-kent speech, 'Ain't I a Woman?', wis gied in 1851 at the Ohio Women's Rights Convention in Akron, Ohio.