*Ø* Blogmanac November 18, 1797 | Sojourner Truth
I have plowed and planted, and gathered into barns ... and aren't I a woman? I have borne thirteen children and seen them most all sold off into slavery, and when I cried out with a mother's grief, none but Jesus heard. And aren't I a woman?
1797 Sojourner Truth (self-given name of Isabella Baumfree, aka Isabella Van Wagener) (1797? - 1883), whose “Aren't I a Woman?” speech electrified an 1851 Ohio, USA women's rights convention; one of 13 children born to slave parents. At six-feet-tall, an imposing figure, she spoke only Dutch till she was sold from her family around the age of eleven.
Baumfree settled in New York City, earning a living as a domestic worker for several religious communes, including the ‘Kingdom of Matthias’ which became embroiled in a scandal of adultery and murder. When, in 1843, she was inspired by some kind of spiritual peak experience, Isabella Baumfree changed her name to Sojourner Truth, walked throughout Long Island and Connecticut, and preached “God's truth and plan for salvation”.
Eventually arriving in Northampton, MA, Sojourner joined the intentional community the Northampton Association for Education and Industry, where she met and worked with abolitionists such as William Lloyd Garrison (founder of the American Anti-Slavery Society), Frederick Douglass and Olive Gilbert. (The latter helped edit her memoirs which were published in 1850 as The Narrative of Sojourner Truth: A Northern Slave.)
Truth eventually added abolitionism and women's suffrage to her oratory; in her later life she became a noted speaker for both the abolitionist movement and the women's rights movement.
Narrative of Sojourner Truth; a Bondswoman of Olden Time,
Emancipated by the New York Legislature
in the Early Part of the Present Century;
with a History of Her Labors and Correspondence,
Drawn from Her "Book of Life".
The Narrative of Sojourner Truth at Amazon.com
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I have plowed and planted, and gathered into barns ... and aren't I a woman? I have borne thirteen children and seen them most all sold off into slavery, and when I cried out with a mother's grief, none but Jesus heard. And aren't I a woman?
1797 Sojourner Truth (self-given name of Isabella Baumfree, aka Isabella Van Wagener) (1797? - 1883), whose “Aren't I a Woman?” speech electrified an 1851 Ohio, USA women's rights convention; one of 13 children born to slave parents. At six-feet-tall, an imposing figure, she spoke only Dutch till she was sold from her family around the age of eleven.
Baumfree settled in New York City, earning a living as a domestic worker for several religious communes, including the ‘Kingdom of Matthias’ which became embroiled in a scandal of adultery and murder. When, in 1843, she was inspired by some kind of spiritual peak experience, Isabella Baumfree changed her name to Sojourner Truth, walked throughout Long Island and Connecticut, and preached “God's truth and plan for salvation”.
Eventually arriving in Northampton, MA, Sojourner joined the intentional community the Northampton Association for Education and Industry, where she met and worked with abolitionists such as William Lloyd Garrison (founder of the American Anti-Slavery Society), Frederick Douglass and Olive Gilbert. (The latter helped edit her memoirs which were published in 1850 as The Narrative of Sojourner Truth: A Northern Slave.)
Truth eventually added abolitionism and women's suffrage to her oratory; in her later life she became a noted speaker for both the abolitionist movement and the women's rights movement.
Emancipated by the New York Legislature
in the Early Part of the Present Century;
with a History of Her Labors and Correspondence,
Drawn from Her "Book of Life".
The Narrative of Sojourner Truth at Amazon.com
Pip Wilson's articles are available for your publication, on application. Further details
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