Sojourner Truth (c. 1797 – 1883) was an African-American abolitionist and women's rights activist. Truth was born into slavery in Swartekill, Ulster County, New York, but escaped with her infant daughter to freedom in 1826. After going to court to recover her son, in 1828 she became the first black woman to win such a case against a white man.
Truth started dictating her memoirs to her friend Olive Gilbert, and in 1850 William Lloyd Garrison privately published her book, The Narrative of Sojourner Truth: A Northern Slave.
Ain't I a Woman? (1851) is Truth's best-known speech was delivered extemporaneously, in 1851, at the Ohio Women's Rights Convention in Akron.
Contents:
The Narrative of Sojourner Truth
Her Birth and Parentage
Accommodations
Her Brothers and Sisters
Her Religious Instruction
The Auction
Death of Mau-mau Bett
Last Days of Bomefree
Death of Bomefree
Commencement of Isabella's Trials in Life
Trials Continued
Her Standing With Her New Master and Mistress
Isabella's Marriage
Isabella as a Mother
Slaveholder's Promises
Her Escape
Illegal Sale of Her Son
It Is Often Darkest Just Before Dawn
Death of Mrs. Eliza Fowler
Isabella's Religious Experience
New Trials
My Dear and Beloved Mother
Finding a Brother and Sister
Gleanings
The Matthias Delusion
Fasting
The Cause of Her Leaving the City
The Consequences of Refusing a Traveller a Night's Lodging
Some of Her Views and Reasonings
The Second Advent Doctrines
Another Camp Meeting
Her Last Interview With Her Master
Certificates of Character
Ain't I a Woman?
