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Not applicable. Parents need to know that My Name Is Truth: The Life of Sojourner Truth is a stylized and emotionally powerful biography of the former slave and abolitionist crusader who dedicated her life to sharing her heartrending life story so others might be inspired to take up the fight for civil rights. 1 Sojourner Turth was one of the few African American women to participate in both the abolition of slavery and women's rights movements; 2  Sojourner Truth, born a slave and thus unschooled, was an impressive speaker, preacher, activist and abolitionist; This review of My Name Is Truth: The Life of Sojourner Truth was written by. Kyle Jackson. Common Sense Media's unbiased ratings are conducted by expert reviewers and aren't influenced by the product's creators or by any of our funders, affiliates, or partners. Sojourner Truth. Given the name Isabella at birth, Sojourner Truth was born in the year 1797, in Hurley, New York. She was enslaved for approximately twenty-eight years of her life. As property of several slave owners, when she was ten-years old, Isabella was sold for $100 and some sheep. My Name Is Truth: The Life of Sojourner Truth tells the harrowing and true story of one of 19th-century black America's towering figures, the former-slave-turned-abolitionist firebrand who took her name from her dedication to spreading a message of justice. Sojourner Truth (/soʊˈdʒɜrnər ˈtruːθ/ ; born Isabella (Bell) Baumfree; 1797 – November 26, 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. She gave herself the name Sojourner Truth in 1843. Her best-known speech was delivered extemporaneously, in 1851, at the Ohio Women's Rights Convention in Akron, Ohio. Sojourner is a shining example of someone whose dedication to faith, justice, and truth inspired others to take up the cause of equality under the law. Not only was she an early civil rights hero, she was a proto-feminist, daring to stand up to powerful men, meeting them in dialogue and debating on equal footing. Prints and Photographs Division. 1  Sojourner Turth was one of the few African American women to participate in both the abolition of slavery and women's rights movements; 2  Sojourner Truth, born a slave and thus unschooled, was an impressive speaker, preacher, activist and abolitionist; Abolitionist and women's rights advocate Sojourner Truth was enslaved in New York until she was an adult. Born Isabella Baumfree around the turn of the nineteenth century, her first language was Dutch. Owned by a series of masters, she was freed in 1827 by the New York Gradual Abolition Act and worked as a domestic. 1 Sojourner Truth, born a slave and thus unschooled, was an impressive speaker, preacher, activist and abolitionist; 2  Truth and other African American women played vital roles in the Civil War that greatly helped the Union army.
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. She gave herself the name Sojourner Truth in 1843.