Women / Persons ~ P14996
Sojourner Truth
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Alternate Names:
- Belle
- Isabella
- Isabella Baumfree
Gender: Female
Life Dates: ca. 1797 – 26 November 1883
Types:
- Abolitionist
- Activist, Women's Rights
- African American
- American (US)
- Nurse
- Nursing reform
- Slave, bondservant, former slave
- Speaker, Lecturer, Public Reader
Note: Dutch learned as first language, Mother of 6; first black woman to win a lawsuit freeing her son from slavery; public speaker; recruited black troops for the Union army during the civil war