Sojourner Truth
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Sojourner Truth was an American abolitionist and activist for African-American civil rights, women's rights, and alcohol temperance. Truth was born into slavery in Swartekill, New York, but escaped wi
Truth, c. 1870
Sojourner Truth examining the Bible with Abraham Lincoln, Civil War-era print
House of Col. Johannes Hardenbergh
Truth sold cartes-de-visite and cabinet cards, such as this one, to raise money for her work. The text above her name reads "I Sell the Shadow to Support the Substance".
Ain't I a Woman?
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"Ain't I a Woman?" is a speech, generally considered to have been delivered extemporaneously, by Sojourner Truth, born into slavery in the state of New York. Some time after gaining her freedom in 182
Sojourner Truth
…delivered extemporaneously, in 1851, at the Ohio Women's Convention in Akron, Ohio. The speech became widely known during the Civil War by the title "Ain't I a Woman?", a variation of the original speech that was published in 1863 as being spoken in a stereotypical Black dialect, then more commonly spoken in the…
Sojourner Truth
1787 Wedgwood anti-slavery medallion designed by Josiah Wedgwood for the British anti-slavery campaign
1830s image of a slave woman saying "Am I Not a Woman and a Sister?"