1850: The autobiography of abolitionist Sojourner Truth (1797-1883), formerly an enslaved woman and originally Isabella Van Wagener. (Photo by MPI/Getty Images) Truth, a former slave and one of ...
Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A portrait of Sojourner Truth taken in 1864. (Gladstone Collection of African American Photographs, Library of Congress) Well, ...
“Ain’t I a woman?” Well, no, I’m not. Yet ever since I first read that refrain in Sojourner Truth’s famous speech to the 1851 Woman’s Rights Convention in Akron, Ohio, I’ve thought of it as belonging ...
“Ain’t I a woman?” Well, no, I’m not. Yet ever since I first read that refrain in Sojourner Truth’s famous speech to the 1851 Woman’s Rights Convention in Akron, Ohio, I’ve thought of it as belonging ...
ALBANY, N.Y. (NEXSTAR) — New York has a new state holiday on November 26: Sojourner Truth Day. It honors the legacy of the African American abolitionist and women’s rights activist whose voice still ...