21. Oxford University Press: Narrative Of Sojourner Truth: Sojourner Truth Narrative of Sojourner Truth. A Bondswoman of Olden Time, with a History of A fiery speaker, Sojourner Truth was among the foremost women evangelists. http://www.oup.com/us/catalog/general/subject/LiteratureEnglish/AmericanLiteratu

22. Oxford University Press: Narrative Of Sojourner Truth: Sojourner Truth Sojourner Truth details a slave narrative and moral biography. She transforms herself from Isabella, freed slave, to Sojourner Truth, voice for women, http://www.oup.com/us/catalog/general/subject/LiteratureEnglish/AmericanLiteratu

23. Sojourner Truth Sojourner Truth was born Isabella Bomefree (later spelled Baumfree) about 1797 Isabella changed her name to Sojourner Truth in 1843, as she planned to http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Oracle/9840/sojourn.html

Sojourner Truth A Biography *NEW!* Visit the Sojourner Truth Institute Sojourner Truth was born Isabella Bomefree (later spelled Baumfree) about 1797 at Hurley, Ulster County, New York. Her parents were James and Betsy, slaves of Colonel Hardenbergh. Upon the Colonel1s death, their ownership passed to his son, Charles Hardenbergh. Isabella was sold four times: 1806- to Neeley (with a flock of sheep), for $100.00 1808- to Shriver, for $105.00 1810- to Dumont, for $300.00 1828- to Van Wagener, who bought Isabella and her daughter Sophia to give them their freedom. Isabella spoke low Dutch until she was about 10 years old, and never learned to read or write. She was the mother of five children: Diane, b. 1815; buried at Oak Hill Cemetery, Battle Creek, Michigan Peter, b. 1822; surmised to have been lost at sea Hannah, ? Elizabeth, b. 1825; buried at Oak Hill Cemetery, Battle Creek, Michigan Sophia, b. 1826; buried at Harmonia Cemetery, Bedford Township, Calhoun County, Michigan Isabella changed her name to Sojourner Truth in 1843, as she planned to travel the land telling the truth. There are some reports that this change was a response to a religious vision Truth experienced. She led a varied and colorful life in the East, where she won three lawsuits: When she retrieved her son, Peter, who had been sold illegally in New York state.

24. AALBC.com's Guide To African American Books Books Narrative of Sojourner Truth; A Bondswoman of Olden Time, With a History Books A Picture Book of Sojourner Truth (Picture Book Biography) http://aalbc.com/cgi/aalbcamazonproductsfeed.cgi?input_string= Truth Sojourner

25. Sojourner Truth Sojourner Truth (ca. 17971883) was a black American freedom fighter and orator. Sojourner Truth was born Isabella Baumfree in Ulster County, NY, http://www.africawithin.com/bios/sojourner_truth.htm

Sojourner Truth c. 1797-1883 Narrative Essay Sojourner Truth (ca. 1797-1883) was a black American freedom fighter and orator. She believed herself chosen by God to preach His word and to help with the abolitionist effort to free her people. Sojourner Truth was born Isabella Baumfree in Ulster County, N.Y., the daughter of an African named Baumfree (after his Dutch owner) and a woman called Elizabeth. About the age of 9 she was auctioned off to an Englishman named John Nealy. The Nealys understood very little of her Dutch jargon and, as a result, she was often brutally punished for no real reason. Eventually Nealy sold her to a fisherman who owned a tavern in Kingston, N.Y. Here she acquired the idiomatic expressions which came to mark her speech. John J. Dumont, a nearby plantation owner, purchased her next. During her tenure with his family she married and had five children. In 1827, after New York had passed an emancipation act freeing its slaves, she prepared to take her family away. But Dumont began to show reluctance to this, so she ran away with only her youngest child. She finally wound up in New York City. She worked at a menial job and through some friends came under the sway of a religious fanatic named Mathias. Eventually disillusioned by her life in New York and by Mathias, in 1843 she left on what she termed a pilgrimage to spread the truth of God's word. She assumed the name Sojourner Truth, which she believed God had given her as a symbolic representation of her mission in life. Soon her reputation as an orator spread, and large crowds greeted her wherever she spoke.

26. IPac2.0 Search Results. Browsing results matching Truth Sojourner Truth, Sojourner, d. 1883 Juvenile literature. 1. 8. Truthfulness and falsehood, 37 http://ipac.vpl.ca/ipac20/ipac.jsp?index=SUBJECT&term=Truth Sojourner

27. Sojourner Truth Sojourner Truth (originally named Isabella Baumfree), was born a slave in The subject of this biography, Sojourner Truth, as she now calls herself, http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/USAStruth.htm

Sojourner Truth Spartacus USA History British History Second World War ... Email Sojourner Truth (originally named Isabella Baumfree), was born a slave in Ulster County, New York State, in about 1797. At the age of nine she was auctioned off to an Englishman named John Nealey. Over the next few years she was owned by a fisherman in Kingston and then by John Dumont, a plantation owner from New York County. Between 1810 and 1827 she had five children with a fellow slave. She was dismayed when one of her sons was sold to a plantation owner in Alabama. After New York State abolished slavery in 1827, Quaker friends helped her win back her son through the courts. She moved to New York City and obtained worked as a servant. She became friends with Elijah Pierson, a religious missionary, and eventually moved into his home. In 1843 Isabella took the name Sojourner Truth. With the help of a white friend, Olive Gilbert, she publishe

28. TES NEWS, V. 4, N.3, Sojourner Truth Sojourner Truth A 19th Century Traveling Advocate for Civil Rights Sojourner Truth was a deeply spiritual antislavery and women s rights activist who http://tes.asu.edu/TESNEWS/4_VOL/No_3/sojourner_person.html

TES NEWS, Volume 4, Number 3, August 1995 Sojourner Truth: A 19th Century Traveling Advocate for Civil Rights by Kelli Mellgren and Ken Edgett, ASU Sojourner Truth was a deeply spiritual antislavery and women's rights activist who traveled widely in New England and the Midwestern U.S. to speak on these issues. She was known for her deep voice, quick wit, and even deeper faith and conviction. She was born Isabella Baumfree around the year 1797 in Ulster County, New York. Her exact date of birth is unknown, because she was born into slavery. She had many different owners, her last was Isaac Van Wagener. About the time she was freed, one of her sons was sold illegally into slavery in Alabama. With much determination and a lawsuit against the man who sold her son, she eventually got him back. Isabella Van Wagener changed her name in 1843 to Sojourner Truth. Answering what she considered to be a calling from God, she joined the Methodist Church and became a traveling evangelist. From then on, she "traveled up and down the land," speaking in many towns in the northeast and midwest on women's rights and against slavery. She supported her travels by selling copies of her book, The Narrative of Sojourner Truth.

29. Directory Of Fellows And Research Associates, 1972-Present Fellowship Peterson 9192, A Critical Biography of Sojourner Truth (prof. of Press, 1994), 139-58; Representing Truth Sojourner Truth s Knowing and http://www.americanantiquarian.org/Fellowships/fellowsp.htm

Your browser does not support script Fellowships Directory of Fellows and Research Associates, 1972-Present P PACKARD, CYNTHIA Fellowship: AHPCS 96-97, "The Black Image in Photography, Art and the Popular Press, 1850-1876" (lecturer in Afro-American studies and Ph.D. cand. in American studies, Massachusetts at Amherst) Education : Massachusetts at Amherst, B.A., 70, M.Ed. 81 [Updated 1997] PAINTER, NELL IRVIN Fellowship: Peterson 91-92, "A Critical Biography of Sojourner Truth" (prof. of history, Princeton) Education : California at Berkeley, BA, 64; California at Los Angeles, M.A., 67; Harvard, Ph.D., 74 Current Position: Edwards Professor of American History, Princeton Fellowship Publications : "Difference, Slavery, and Memory: Sojourner Truth in Feminist Abolitionism," in Jean Fagan Yellin and John Van Horne, eds., An Untrodden Path: Antislavery and Women's Political Culture (Ithaca: Cornell Univ. Press, 1994), 139-58; "Representing Truth: Sojourner Truth's Knowing and Becoming Known,"

30. Truth Sojourner - Isabella Baumfree Van Wagener From FOLDOC The Narrative of Sojourner Truth, a Bondswoman of Olden Time (dictated to Olive Gilbert in Recommended Reading Sojourner Truth, Book of Life (XPress, http://www.swif.uniba.it/lei/foldop/foldoc.cgi?Truth Sojourner - Isabella Baumfr

31. Gale - Free Resources - Black History - Biographies - Sojourner Truth Short biography and portrait of this abolitionist and women's rights activist. http://www.gale.com/free_resources/bhm/bio/truth_s.htm

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32. Sojourner Truth - Florence, Northampton Massachusetts Group dedicated to creating a memorial statue to honor Sojourner Truth and her work. Offers history, quotes, and newsletter. http://www.noho.com/sojourner/

Welcome to the Web Site of the Sojourner Truth Memorial Statue Project in Florence, Massachusetts! Sojourner Truth, a former slave who lived in Florence, MA in the Mid-1800's, was a nationally known advocate for equality and justice. A group of citizens from many walks of life, have come together to create a memorial statue and site honoring her life and work. The following pages describe the origin of the project, its mission, the fundraising effort for the statue, artist selection update, and related links. Enjoy and carry it on! This web page was created through a grant from The Community Based Learning Program, Weissman Center for Leadership, Mount Holyoke College , South Hadley, Massachusetts. For comments and suggestions about the web site, contact s.strimer@excite.com Web hosting and technical services donated by eclecTechs

33. Sojourner Truth - African American Historical Figure A brief look at some of the lesserknown details of Truth's life. http://www.brightmoments.com/blackhistory/nsotrue.html

Sojourner Truth It is rarely discussed, but Sojourner Truth fought for the desegregation of public transportation in Washington, DC during the Civil War. She refused to face the indignities of Jim Crow segregation on street cars and had the Jim Crow car removed from the Washington D. C. system. Sojourner Truth brought a local street to a standstill when a driver refused her passage. With the support of the crowd she forced the driver to carry her. During her legendary life, she challenged injustice wherever she saw it. She was an abolitionist, women's rights activist and preacher. Born into slavery (as Isabella Baumfree) in upstate New York, Sojourner Truth obtained her freedom and moved to New York City. There she began to work with organizations designed to assist women. She later became a traveling preacher and quickly developed a reputation as a powerful speaker. A turning point in her life occurred when she visited the Northhampton Association in Massachusetts. The members of this association included many of the leading abolitionists and women's rights activists of her time. Among these people Sojourner Truth discussed issues of the day and as a result of these discussions became one of the first people in the country to link the oppression of black slaves with the oppression of women.

34. Narrative Of Sojurner Truth: Cover Written by Olive Gilbert, offers full text of this story. http://xroads.virginia.edu/~HYPER/TRUTH/cover.html

THE NARRATIVE OF SOJOURNER TRUTH Written by Olive Gilbert, based on information provided by Sojourner Truth. Another AS Hypertext

35. Sojourner Truth Biographical sketch from the Stamp on Black History Project. http://library.thinkquest.org/10320/Truth.htm

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36. Sojourner Truth An article at Africana.com about this American abolitionist, women's rights advocate, and religious visionary. http://www.africana.com/archive/articles/tt_058.asp

//document.domain = "aol.com"; var activeNav = ""; artmagnum('') Black Voices Main Site Map Search Skip Navigation Education Lifestyle Entertainment ... Television Sojourner Truth Contributed by James Clyde Sellman Sojourner Truth was one of the best-known black women of her time, rivaled only by Harriet Tubman, yet her life remains surrounded by mystery. Truth, who was illiterate, left no written record apart from her autobiographical Narrative of Sojourner Truth , dictated to Olive Gilbert in the late 1840s. Much of what we know about her was reported or perhaps invented by others. More so than Frederick Douglass, her prolifically autobiographical contemporary, Truth has been transformed into myth. Feminists emphasize her challenge to restrictive Victorian codes of femininity; Marxist historians proclaim her solidarity with the working class. Her spirit has been invoked on American college campuses in struggles to create African American and Women's Studies programs. Yet most interpretations of Truth fail to understand the centrality of her evangelical religious faith. In their writings, both Harriet Beecher Stowe and Douglass recount a central illustration of Truth's faith, which occurred at a protest gathering in Boston's Faneuil Hall after the passage of the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850. Truth sat in the front row, listening to Douglass speak. Events had led him to abandon the nonviolent approach of moral suasion, and he exhorted southern slaves to take arms and free themselves. Truth accepted his frustration, but not his loss of faith in God's justice. In a voice that carried throughout the hall, she asked a single question: "Frederick, is God dead?"

37. About Sojourner Truth | Sojourner Truth Biography A biography of Sojourner Truth, former slave, abolitionist, preacher and advocate of women s rights. http://womenshistory.about.com/library/bio/bltruth.htm

zJs=10 zJs=11 zJs=12 zJs=13 zc(5,'jsc',zJs,9999999,'') About Homework Help Women's History African American ... Sojourner Truth About Sojourner Truth Homework Help Women's History Essentials Biographies of Notable Women ... Help zau(256,140,140,'el','http://z.about.com/0/ip/417/C.htm','');w(xb+xb+' ');zau(256,140,140,'von','http://z.about.com/0/ip/496/7.htm','');w(xb+xb); FREE Newsletter Sign Up Now for the Women's History newsletter! See Online Courses Search Women's History Sojourner Truth November 26 Sojourner Truth Portrait adapted from an image courtesy of the Library of Congress The woman we know as Sojourner Truth was born into slavery in New York as Isabella Baumfree (after her father's owner, Baumfree). She was sold several times, and while owned by the John Dumont family in Ulster County, married Thomas, another of Dumont's slaves. She had five children with Thomas. In 1827, New York law emancipated all slaves, but Isabella had already left her husband and run away, with her youngest child. She went to work for the family of Isaac Van Wagenen. While working for the Van Wagenen's whose name she used briefly she discovered that a member of the Dumont family had sold one of her children to slavery in Alabama. Since this son had been emancipated under New York Law, Isabella sued in court and won his return.

38. About Sojourner Truth | Sojourner Truth Biography More results from womenshistory.about.com African American Journey Truth, SojournerTruth, Sojourner a hero in black history. A biography of Sojourner Truth, an abolitionist (person opposed to slavery) and the first black woman to speak http://womenshistory.about.com/homework/womenshistory/library/bio/bltruth.htm

zJs=10 zJs=11 zJs=12 zJs=13 zc(5,'jsc',zJs,9999999,'') About Homework Help Women's History African American ... Sojourner Truth About Sojourner Truth Homework Help Women's History Essentials Biographies of Notable Women ... Help zau(256,140,140,'el','http://z.about.com/0/ip/417/C.htm','');w(xb+xb+' ');zau(256,140,140,'von','http://z.about.com/0/ip/496/7.htm','');w(xb+xb); FREE Newsletter Sign Up Now for the Women's History newsletter! See Online Courses Search Women's History Sojourner Truth November 26 Sojourner Truth Portrait adapted from an image courtesy of the Library of Congress The woman we know as Sojourner Truth was born into slavery in New York as Isabella Baumfree (after her father's owner, Baumfree). She was sold several times, and while owned by the John Dumont family in Ulster County, married Thomas, another of Dumont's slaves. She had five children with Thomas. In 1827, New York law emancipated all slaves, but Isabella had already left her husband and run away, with her youngest child. She went to work for the family of Isaac Van Wagenen. While working for the Van Wagenen's whose name she used briefly she discovered that a member of the Dumont family had sold one of her children to slavery in Alabama. Since this son had been emancipated under New York Law, Isabella sued in court and won his return.

39. Truth, Sojourner (1797?-1883) Sojourner Truth Was The Name Used By She took the name Sojourner Truth and began lecturing in New York. In 1864, Sojourner Truth visited President Abraham Lincoln in the White House. http://www2.worldbook.com/features/whm/html/struth.html

Truth, Sojourner (1797?-1883) Sojourner Truth was the name used by Isabella Baumfree, one of the best-known American abolitionists of her day. She was the first black woman orator to speak out against slavery. She traveled widely through New England and the Midwest on speaking tours. Her deep voice, quick wit, and inspiring faith helped spread her fame. Baumfree was born a slave in Ulster County, New York. She became free in 1828 under a New York law that banned slavery. In 1843, she experienced what she regarded as a command from God to preach. She took the name Sojourner Truth and began lecturing in New York. Her early speeches were based on the belief that people best show love for God by love and concern for others. She soon began directing her speeches toward the abolition of slavery. In 1864, Sojourner Truth visited President Abraham Lincoln in the White House. She stayed in Washington, D.C., and worked to improve living conditions for blacks there. She also helped find jobs and homes for slaves who had escaped from the South to Washington. In the 1870's, she tried to persuade the federal government to set aside undeveloped lands in the West as farms for blacks. But her plan won no government support.

40. Sojourner Truth Biography Page Born Isabella Baumfree, Sojourner Truth was one of the earliest and most passionate of female abolitionistsfor she herself had once been a slave. http://www.civilwarhome.com/truthbio.htm

Sojourner Truth Born Isabella Baumfree, Sojourner Truth was one of the earliest and most passionate of female abolitionists-for she herself had once been a slave. She also spoke of the living conditions many slaves were forced to endure, crowded together into cabins with no privacy, overworked, fed scraps in many cases, and clothed in threadbare hand-me-downs. Her audiences must have felt the shame as Truth recalled the auction block, upon which men and women alike were frequently forced to strip and stand before potential buyers, who would search their bodies for marks of the whip or of wrist or leg irons, the presence of which would indicate the slave had been frequently punished. The slaves would be forced to endure impersonal and degrading inspections of their teeth, muscles, and other body parts, depending on what the buyer was looking for in the purchase. Truth was self-educated, and much of her speaking bore the stamp of a deep love of and acquaintance with Scripture. When explaining to Harriet Beecher Stowe how she came to change her name, Truth said she felt God had called her "to travel up and down the land, showing the people their sins and being a sign unto them." She also possessed a quick wit, coupled with an ability to think fast and turn the unkind words of others against them. Facing a heckler once who told her he did not care for her anti-slavery talk anymore than he would for the bite of a flea, Truth retorted, "Perhaps not, but Lord willing I'll keep you scratching."

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