Sojourner Truth
N 42° 18.411 W 085° 10.696
16T E 650147 N 4685453
Freed black slave who became an evangelist, proponent of Women's rights and Abolition, and Temperence speaker.
Waymark Code: WMZ0Y
Location: Michigan, United States
Date Posted: 11/19/2006
Views: 116
Sojourner Truth was born a slave with thr name Isabella in New York State. Freed in 1827, she changed her name and became a evangelist, proponent of Women's rights and Abolition, and a Temperence speaker.
Description:
Sojourner Truth was born a slave with thr name Isabella in New York State. Freed in 1827, she changed her name and became a evangelist, proponent of Women's rights and Abolition, and a Temperence speaker. Her fame in these areas is all the more amazing in that she had almost no formal education and was unable to read or write. Her exact date of birth is not know, her headstone shows that she was about 105 when she died. Historians feel that this is incorrect, that she was closer to the upper 80's.
Date of birth: 01/01/1797
Date of death: 11/26/1883
Area of notoriety: Politics
Marker Type: Headstone
Setting: Outdoor
Visiting Hours/Restrictions: 8 AM to 5 PM
Fee required?: No
Web site: Not listed
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