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".
Battle Creek, Michigan
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Battle Creek is a city in northwestern Calhoun County, Michigan, United States, at the confluence of the Kalamazoo and Battle Creek rivers. As of the 2020 census, the city had a total population of 52
Sojourner Truth
…at a suffragist "mob convention" at the Broadway Tabernacle in New York City; that year she also met Harriet Beecher Stowe. In 1856, she traveled to Battle Creek, Michigan, to speak to a group called the Friends of Human Progress. Northampton Camp Meeting – 1844, Northampton, Massachusetts: At a camp meeting where she was…
View of Downtown Battle Creek
Festival Market Square (August 2021)
City Bank of Battle Creek was shown on a real photo postcard sent on July 7, 1908
Battle Creek is known for the World Headquarters of Kellogg's, best known for its Kellogg's Corn Flakes and Special K cereals.