Sojourner Truth Research Paper

Sojourner Truth Sojourner Truth has impacted the world by being one of the most famous nineteenth- century black American women speakers. Truth’s faith based life lead her to be a women's’ rights activist. She is best known by giving her most famous speech in 1851 at a women’s rights convention. The nationally known feminists help recruit black soldiers for the civil war. Sojourner Truth has been an inspiration to many humans during and after her life.

Sojourner Truth was born in 1797 and died in 1883. Truth was bought and sold four times and spent the first twenty-nine years of her life as a slave in New York. A law that was passed in 1817 should have made Truth free by the time she was twenty-five, in 1827 she was no closer to her freedom, so she fled to a neighboring abolitionist family. She took Van Wagener as her proper name, her name now being Isabella Van Wagener. She took what life gave her and made the best out of it. Truth joined religious revivals and became a powerful and charismatic speaker (Sojourner Truth [1997-1883)]. She did what she thought was best for her life and eventually …show more content…
Truth presented her speech “Ain’t I a Woman?” in 1851 that later became a famous woman’ speech (Sojourner Truth Facts and Biography). She has impacted many people with this speech by revealing her true feeling that people can connect to. “As written by Olive Gilbert in her narrative of Sojourner Truth, Truth said, ‘Shall I run away and hide from the devil? Me, a servant of the living God? Have I not faith enough to go out and quell that mob, when I know it is written -- 'One shall chase a thousand, and put ten thousand to flight.' I know there are not a thousand here; and I know I am a servant of the living God. I'll go to the rescue and the Lord shall go with me and protect me.” (

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