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Sojourner Truth

(Isabella (“Bell”) Baumfree)

1797 – 1883 CE

Born into slavery and now listed in the “100 Most Significant Americans of All Time,” Sojourner escaped with her infant daughter, went to court trying to get her son back and became the first black woman to win a case like this. She traveled extensively promoting the abolition of slavery, helped recruit black troops during the Civil War and tried to get land grants for freed slaves after the war. A powerful women's rights activist and friend of Susan B. Anthony, she gave one of the most famous speeches on women's rights and is considered a saint by both the Episcopal and Lutheran churches.

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“That man over there says that woman needs to be helped into carriages and lifted over ditches... Look at my arm! I have ploughed, and planted, and gathered into bards, and no many could head me! And ain't I a woman?”

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“I have born 13 children and seen em most all sold off to slavery. And when I cried out with my mother's grief, none but Jesus heard me”

Themes: Slavery

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“God will take care of the poor trampled slave, but where will the slaveholder be when eternity begins?”

Themes: Punishment

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“'twixt the Negroes of the South and the women at the North, all talking about rights, the white men will be in a fix pretty soon.”

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“The rich rob the poor, and the poor rob one another.”

Themes: Poverty Crime

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