Created by Students for Women's History Month

2. Early Life
1. Sojourner Truth was born Isabelle Baumfree
to a slave family in 1797 in Ulster County, New
York.
2. She was an African-American abolitionist and
women’s rights activist.

3. Adulthood
3. In 1826 she escaped slavery with her
baby.
4. Began preaching in Methodist churches in
1829.

4. 5. In her “Ain’t I a Women” speech, December
1851, she declared that, “If the first woman
God ever made was strong enough to turn
the world upside down all alone, these
women together ought to be able to turn it
back…”

5. 6. She spoke for the Union during the
Civil War.
7. She met with President Lincoln in
October 1864.

6. 8. She also spoke out
against drinking and
capital
punishment.
9. She was the first black
woman to
have a bust on display
in the U.S. Capital.

7. Death
10. She died on November 26, 1883 in Battle
Creek, Michigan.

8. Sources
 www.lkwdpl.org/wihohio/trut-soj.htm
(secondary source)
 “Ain’t I a Woman?” speech from
www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/sojtruth-wom
(primary source)