Significant Contributions
Sojourner was the first African American women to speak out against slavery.
She was also one of the first people to ever go up against a white man in court and win.
Truth was a prominent abolitionist and a women's rights activist.
Sojourner fought a won to be able to ride streetcars in Washington with the whites.
Truth was also well known for going all around the west giving speeches about her experience as a slave and her eventual freedom. Her most famous speech was "Ain't I a Women."
Time Line
1797- She was born in 1797 in New York with the name Isabella Baumfree.
1806- Truth was sold to her second slave owner John Neely at the age of 9 because her first one died.
1815- She falls in love with a slave named Robert but his owner will not allow it because he didn't want her to have children he couldn't own.
1817- Thomas Dumnot her owner forces her to marry a man named Thomas and they have 5 children together.
1826- She escapes her owner with her daughter Isabella and gets her son Peter back.
1828- Truth moves to New York City with her son Peter and she earns a living as a maid.
June 1,1843- She changes her name to Sojourner Truth.
1846- She becomes an abolitionist.
1850- Her narrative " The Narrative of Sojourner Truth" is published.
October 1851- She gives her famous speech "Ain't I a Women."
November 26, 1883- Dies in Michigan because of an infection from sores tha where on her legs.
