Sojourner Truth
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Quotes from Sojourner Truth
“Those are the same stars, and that is the same moon, that look down
upon your brothers and sisters, and which they see as they look up to
them, though they are ever so far away from us, and each other.”
“It is the mind that makes the body.”
“I am not going to die; I'm going home like a shooting star.”
“Truth is powerful, and it prevails.”
“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?”
“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!”
“I have borne 13 children, and seen most all sold off to slavery, and
when I cried out with my mother's grief, none but Jesus heard me!”
“Religion without humanity is poor human stuff.”
“It is hard for the old slaveholding spirit to die, but die it must.”
“I did not run away, I walked away by daylight.”
“I went to the Lord and asked Him to give me a new name. And the
Lord gave me Sojourner, because I was to travel up and down the land,
showing the people their sins, and being a sign unto them.”
“If the Lord comes and burns—as you say he will—I am not going
away; I am going to stay here and stand the fire ... And Jesus will walk
with me through the fire, and keep me from harm.”
—Sojourner Truth
http://www.biography.com/people/sojourner-truth-9511284#early-years-of-freedom
Sojourner Truth was an AfricanAmerican abolitionist and women's
rights activist . She was born into
slavery in Swartekill, Ulster County,
New York, but escaped with her infant
daughter to freedom in 1826. After
going to court to recover her son, she
became the first black woman to win
such a case against a white man.
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An abolitionist is a person who supports slavery ending.
2 An activist is someone who supports change and works for
that change to happen.
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House of Col. Johannes Hardenbergh
Her life
Sojourner Truth was born into slavery about 1797 in Ulster
County, New York. Known as Isabella, her parents were James
and Betsey, the property of Colonel Johannes Hardenbergh.
As a child she spoke only low Dutch and, like most slaves,
never learned to read or write.
About 1815 Isabella married Thomas, a fellow slave, and bore
five children -- Diana (b. 1815), Peter (b. 1821), Elizabeth
(b.1825), Sophia (b. 1826) and a fifth child who may have died
in infancy.
Isabella was sold to four more owners, until she finally walked
to freedom in 1826, carrying her infant daughter, Sophia.
She settled in New York City until 1843, when she changed her
name to Sojourner Truth, announcing she would travel the
land as an itinerant preacher, telling the truth and working
against injustice.
During the next several years, Truth lived in Northampton,
Massachusetts, where she purchased a home, and in Ohio. She
traveled around the east and Midwest preaching for human
rights. This illiterate ex-slave was a powerful figure in several
national social movements, speaking forcefully for the abolition
of slavery, women’s rights and suffrage, the rights of freedmen,
temperance, prison reform and the termination of capital
punishment.
Go to this website and read more!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/
Sojourner_Truth#Early_years