1797-1883
Swartekill, NY
“There is a great stir about colored men getting their rights, but not a word about the colored women; and if colored men get their rights, and not colored women theirs, you see, the colored men will be masters over the women, and it will be just as bad as it was before.”
“If women want any rights more than they's got, why don't they just take them, and not be talking about it.”
Sojourner Truth, born Isabella Bomfree, was a former slave and after buying her freedom, became an African American abolitionist and women’s right activist. Although she never learned to read or write, she was a charismatic and inspirational public speaker and itinerate preacher.