Sojourner Truth: A Rights Activist

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Sojourner Truth
Sojourner Truth was a formerly enslaved person who became a radical advocate supporting "abolition, temperance, and civil and women's rights in the nineteenth century" (Michals, 2015). As a rights activist, she was at the forefront of advocating for women's rights. While she was born into slavery, she managed to escape with her daughter in 1826. After her escape, the rest of her life was dedicated to advocating for other people's rights and ensuring the freedoms would be enjoyed by all in society. Moreover, she was among the people who assisted in recruiting black soldiers in Union Army. Other advocacy activities that she supported included reforms in prisons, property rights, and universal suffrage.
Most of her work was centered on women's rights and gender issues. In one of her speeches delivered at the Ohio Women's Rights Convention, she advocated for women's rights. Notably, her case was centered on the gender challenges experienced by black women in society. She fought against the discrimination that she experienced as a black woman. She was a feminist who demanded zero discrimination against black women. Although she did not have any special training in reading and writing, she was able to fight for equality and advance fair treatment for all genders (Inniss, 2020). She believed that women have equal political, economic, and social rights that they should never be denied.
Within the slave family, she was born Isabella Baumfree in 1797. Her parents were enslaved people in Ulster County, New York. She was of pure African American origin and received little religious instruction from her parent. The slave family was an essential unit in advancing slavery in society. In 1810, she was acquired by John Dumont as an enslaved person, where she stayed for about seventeen years. She is among the most distinguished slaves through hard work affirms the importance of the values taught in slave famil...