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
American, African
American (US)
Enslaved person, bondservant, former enslaved person
Medicine, nurse
Reformer, nursing
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

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Biographies (11 Total)

Sojourner Truth Author: Lawson Andrew Scruggs . Collection Title: Women of Distinction: Remarkable in Works and Invincible in Character. 1893
Sojourner Truth Author: . Collection Title: Herstory. 1995
Sojourner Truth Author: Deborah G. Felder . Collection Title: The 100 Greatest Women of All Time. 1996
Sojourner Truth Author: . Collection Title: Black Women in Nineteenth Century American Life: Their Words, Their Thoughts, Their Feelings. 1976
Sojourner Truth Author: Andrea Davis Pinkney . Collection Title: Let It Shine: Stories of Black Women Freedom Fighters. 2000
Sojourner Truth Author: Hallie Quinn Brown . Collection Title: Homespun Heroines and Other Women of Distinction. 1926
Sojourner Truth Author: Monroe Alphus Majors . Collection Title: Noted Negro Women: Their Triumphs and Activities. 1893
Sojourner Truth Author: Sylvia G. L. Dannett . Collection Title: Profiles of Negro Womanhood. 1964
Sojourner Truth Author: Virginia McLean , Lesnah Hall , Ray Uter , Frank Forde . Collection Title: Four Women: Black Makers of History. 1987
Sojourner Truth Author: Amy L. Alexander . Collection Title: Fifty Black Women Who Changed America. 1999
The Fireside Schools and Introduction: The Negro Woman in American Life Author: Benjamin Griffith Brawley . Collection Title: Women of Achievement: Written for the Fireside Schools, under the Auspices of the Woman's American Baptist Home Mission Society. 1919