Sojourner Truth

Although Sojourner Truth was not allowed to learn how to read or write, she was a wise woman and had an extraordinary gift of speech.

Her mother taught her three rules that will help her when she was on her own: “never lie, never steal and trust in God”

When Belle was eleven she was sold. She learned to speak in English because of her new master’s wife.

After that, she was sold twice and then forced to marry another slave. She had 5 children.

New York State passed a law to free some slaves in 1817, but her master would not free her because he said that if

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After Belle left, her son was sold when he was five.

She went to New York to work as a housekeeper, but when her son became a sailor, she left the city.

After the Civil War, she continued to fight for black people and women’s rights.

Sojourner became a powerful speaker. During the war, Sojourner nursed wounded soldiers. She advised the freed slaves to get an education and to own land. Some thought she had a mystical effect on her audience. Many people spoke out against slavery.

Sojourner Truth washed the dishes, did gardening a lot, harvest the foods, fruits, and vegetables, and did all of that again and again.

A family named Quaker helped to get her freedom. Sojourner published her narrative in 1875 and died, at the age of 86, in Battle Creek, Michigan

. But the Southern States did not recognize the law until they were defeated in the Civil War.

In the 1840s, slaves were treated like animals, they had no rights. But she maintained that she had strong beliefs in her causes and was determined to stand up for them. Peter was now a slave in Alabama, but the law said no slave in New York could be sold to someone in a different state.

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Approximate Word count = 496
Approximate Pages = 2 (250 words per page double spaced)

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