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SOJOUNER TRUTH

Hello my name is Sojourner Truth. My childhood was very poor. More details needed about childhood. I was born to Elizabeth and James Baumfree in slavery in 1797. My real name is Isabella Bumfree and I can’t wait to tell you why I got my name changed!

My adulthood was, at first, normal, for a slave, and then later on in my adulthood my whole life changed! Like most slaves, I was forced to marry someone and that someone was Tomas, another slave. I had five children, four of them were girls and one was a boy. I changed my name to Sojourner Truth in 1826 because .............

I was freed, but I actually ran away and left my children and husband behind because my owner said that he was going to keep me even though he was suppose to free me. Two years after I ran away my son was sold illegally to someone. I went to court with him and became the first woman and the first black to win in a court, and what I won was my son. After that I became an abolitionist, which is someone who fights for freedom. Other abolitionists talked with blacks but I talked with whites. Guess what? I was the first woman to speak against slavery. More details needed about her life. My most famous speech was the, as people called it, “Aint I a woman” speech. It was only 8 years after I started preaching. And now I will share it with you. Wait till you hear this, the speech I just gave to you was recorded 12 years after it was given at a woman’s rights convention by Frances Gage. And now you need an ending.

SOJOUNER TRUTH Hello. My name is Sojourner Truth. My childhood was very poor. More details needed about childhood. I was born to Elizabeth and James Baumfree in slavery in 1797. My real name is Isabella Bumfree and I can’t wait to tell you why I got my name changed! but My adulthood was, at first, normal, for a slave, and then later on in my adulthood my whole life changed! Like most slaves, I was forced to marry someone, and that someone was Tomas, another slave. I had five children, four of them were girls and one was a boy. I changed my name to Sojourner Truth in 1826 because I was freed, but I actually ran away and left my children and husband behind because my owner said that he was going to keep me even though he was suppose to free me. Two years after I ran away my son was sold illegally to someone. I went to court with him and became the first woman and the first black to win in court, and what I won was my son. After that, I became an abolitionist which is someone who fights for freedom. Other abolitionists talked with blacks but I talked with whites. Guess what? I was the first woman to speak against slavery. More details needed about her life. My most famous speech was the “Aint I a woman” speech. It was only 8 years after I started preaching. And now I will share it with you. “Well, children, where there is so much racket there must be something out of kilter. I think that '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. But what's all this here talking about? That man over there says that women need to be helped into carriages, and lifted over ditches, and to have the best place everywhere. Nobody ever helps me into carriages, or over mud-puddles, or gives me any best place! And ain't I a woman? 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? I could work as much and eat as much as a man - when I could get it - and bear the lash as well! And ain't I a woman? I have borne thirteen children, and seen most all sold off to slavery, and when I cried out with my mother's grief, none but Jesus heard me! And ain't I a woman? Then they talk about this thing in the head; what's this they call it? [member of audience whispers, "intellect"] That's it, honey. What's that got to do with women's rights or negroes' rights? If my cup won't hold but a pint, and yours holds a quart, wouldn't you be mean not to let me have my little half measure full? Then that little man in black there, he says women can't have as much rights as men, 'cause Christ wasn't a woman! Where did your Christ come from? Where did your Christ come from? From God and a woman! Man had nothing to do with Him. If the first woman God ever made was strong enough to turn the world upside down all alone, these women together ought to be able to turn it back, and get it right side up again! And now they is asking to do it, the men better let them. Obliged to you for hearing me, and now old Sojourner ain't got nothing more to say”. Wait till you hear this, the speech I just gave to you was recorded 12 years after it was given at a woman’s rights convention by Frances Gage. I lived a long 87 years and sad fully died.