Womens
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- Isabella Bomfree was born into slavery in 1797 near Poughkeepsie, New York. She was bought and sold 4 times and forced into hard labor. As a teen, she gave birth to the first of her five children.
- This life isn't suitable. I've already been bought and sold 4 times, had a child--and I'm still a teenager! I need to escape.
- GET TO WORK!
- Isabella escaped from slavery in 1827. She helped the poor in New York City for 15 years, then changed her name to Sojourner Truth---and started a mission to improve women's rights and abolish slavery.
- I'm sick and tired of the injustice against women and people of color. I'm going to change my name and become part of the women's rights movement.
- Sojourner Truth did not attend the Seneca Falls Convention but spoke at many other women's rights events. She wrote a memoir of her life in slavery--"Narrative of Sojourner Truth", and because of that book, she started to get more well-known. She worked closely with Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Stanton. One of her most famous speeches, titled "Ain't I a Woman?" was given at a women's rights convention in Akron, Ohio, in 1851 (pictured here). She helped shape the women's rights and anti-slavery movements as a whole. Without Sojourner Truth and the people who worked alongside her, we wouldn't be where we are today.
- Women's Rights Convention
- Look at me! Look at my arm! I have ploughed and planted, and gathered into barns, and no man could head me! And ain’t I a woman?
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