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- Amorifera
Added: May. 18, 2013

Sojourner Truth
Added: Apr. 27, 2013

THANK YOU!!! MAY YOUR SOUL FIND SWEET REST IN THE ARMS OF OUR LORD!!!
- Linda LuLu Blanks
Added: Apr. 16, 2013

You are an amazing person, and a inspiration for us all.
- Rich
Added: Apr. 3, 2013

- Amy the Spirit Seeker
Added: Mar. 14, 2013

My great-niece, has a book report due on Friday,02/08/2013,over your great feats in our history....Awesome,
-Anonymous
Added: Feb. 5, 2013

Sojourner Truth
- D S - F
Added: Feb. 2, 2013

In memory and honor . . .
- Anita
Added: Jan. 25, 2013

...and New Year's blessings.
- Kate Duvall
Added: Dec. 8, 2012

Remembering you today & how you left this world a better place..bless you...
- 2kjmom
Added: Nov. 26, 2012

Sojourner Truth: Madam, you will be best remembered as becoming the first black woman to win a lawsuit against a white man. thanks for wonderful words of wisdom and bravery, may you rest in peace!
- MFPS
Added: Nov. 26, 2012

- Mike
Added: Nov. 26, 2012

Added: Nov. 26, 2012

- Sgt. Rock
Added: Nov. 26, 2012

The woman known as Sojourner Truth, a legendary crusader for the cause of human rights, was born into slavery in New York as Isabella Baumfree in the year 1797. In 1827, she escaped from her owner and took refuge with a Quaker family with whom she resided until the New York State Emancipation Act was approved a year later.Baumfree took her new name--Sojourner Truth--in 1843 when, as she later said, she felt a "call" to travel and preach on emancipation. She toured the country over the next number of years, often wearing a sash reading, "Proclaim liberty throughout the land unto all the inhabitants thereof." She supported herself through the sale of her autobiography, The Narrative of Sojourner Truth, a work which she dictated to her friend Olive Gilbert. Truth never learned to read or write but was, nonetheless, an intelligent woman with a quick wit and an intensely engaging personality.In 1850, she met Elizabeth Cady Stanton and other feminists of the day; thereafter, she added the cause of women's rights to her lectures, delivering her famed "Ain't I a Woman" speech at a convention in Akron, Ohio the next year.At the invitation of Quaker friends, Truth moved to their village of Harmonia, Michigan on the outskirts of Battle Creek in 1857. Although she continued to travel widely, Battle Creek would thereafter be home to Truth, her children, and grandchildren.During the Civil War, Truth worked tirelessly to ensure that troops of color were treated fairly, even assembling care packages for them on Thanksgiving Day. She met with President Abraham Lincoln in Washington, D.C. and, in 1865, sued and won a judgment against a streetcar company that led to the desegregation of such conveyances. She also served as a counselor to freed slaves in Virginia--helping to provide them with the skills needed to achieve self-sufficiency.Leg ulcers forced Sojourner Truth to return to Battle Creek for good in 1875. Though treated by a variety of practitioners including Dr. John Harvey Kellogg, she died on November 26, 1883. She is buried in Battle Creek's Oak Hill Cemetery.
- Daniel Pletcher
Added: Nov. 25, 2012

Happy Thanksgiving and birthday!
- Kate Duvall
Added: Nov. 16, 2012

- Kate Duvall
Added: Oct. 7, 2012

Happy Independence Day!
- Kate Duvall
Added: Jul. 4, 2012

Gracefulness is deceitful and beauty is vain; a woman that fears the Lord, she shall be praised.
- David Martin
Added: Jun. 21, 2012

- Lance
Added: May. 20, 2012

Happy Mother's Day!
- Kate Duvall
Added: May. 1, 2012

Thank you for making the world a better place to live. Your light will shine on forever.
- Tracy Rademacher
Added: Apr. 21, 2012

I know you're in Heaven. Your prayers are always answered Please pray that I find and hold a good job. May God bless you and your loved ones!
- anonymous
Added: Apr. 11, 2012

Easter blessings.
- Kate Duvall
Added: Apr. 4, 2012

So courageous to stand up and fight for what you believed in. Thank you Miss Truth, may you forever rest in peace.
- DF
Added: Mar. 25, 2012

Glory be to God for your life. You lived during some harsh, rough, and cruel times. God is not and was not dead, Ms. Truth. He was with you and helping you always. You did what he told you to do. "Well done....", Ms. Truth. Thank you for speaking out against slavery, helping women to fight for the right to vote, helping freed slaves, and for your sacrifices in life of having to leave some of your children behind, having a companion sold off, and being a slave yourself; being treated cruelly and beaten. You was "faithful" to the end. RIP Ms. Sojourner Truth.
- Reginald
Added: Mar. 9, 2012