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She returned to Michigan in [[1867]] and died at her home in [[Battle Creek, Michigan]], on [[November 26]], 1883. She is purported to have said towards the end, "I'm goin' home like a shootin' star." She is buried in Oak Hill Cemetery in Battle Creek. In [[1983]], she was inducted into the [[Michigan Women's Hall of Fame]]. | She returned to Michigan in [[1867]] and died at her home in [[Battle Creek, Michigan]], on [[November 26]], 1883. She is purported to have said towards the end, "I'm goin' home like a shootin' star." She is buried in Oak Hill Cemetery in Battle Creek. In [[1983]], she was inducted into the [[Michigan Women's Hall of Fame]]. | ||
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In [[1997]] the [[NASA]] [[Mars Pathfinder]] mission's robotic rover was named "Sojourner" after Sojourner Truth. [http://mpfwww.jpl.nasa.gov/missions/past/pathfinder.html] | In [[1997]] the [[NASA]] [[Mars Pathfinder]] mission's robotic rover was named "Sojourner" after Sojourner Truth. [http://mpfwww.jpl.nasa.gov/missions/past/pathfinder.html] | ||
Revision as of 18:19, 22 August 2006
Sojourner Truth (c. 1797–1883) was the self-given name, from 1843, of an American abolitionist born into slavery from Hurley, New York. (Her original name was Isabella Baumfree, but some sources list her name as Isabella Van Wagener.)
Life
The year of her birth is uncertain, but is usually taken to be in 1797. She was forced to have five children while in slavery with a man named Thomas Jeffery Harvey. Her youngest child was named Sophie, with whom she fled, finally ending up in Canada in 1827.
After New York state abolished slavery, she returned there in 1829, working as a domestic servant for over a decade and joining Elijah Pierson in evangelical preaching on street-corners.
Later in life she became a noted speaker for both the Abolitionist movement and the women's rights movement. Truth's most famous speech, "Ain't I a Woman?," is a short but well pointed commentary.
In 1841, she went to Northampton, Massachusetts to join an utopian community, the Northampton Association of Education and Industry. When the association disbanded in 1846, she remained in Florence, Massachusetts, where she worked with a neighbor, Olive Gilbert, to produce a biography in 1850 known as the Narrative of Sojourner Truth: A Northern Slave.
In 1857, Truth moved to Michigan, where she continued her advocacy. During the American Civil War, she organized collection of supplies for the Union, and moved to Washington, D.C. after the Emancipation Proclamation was issued, to work with former slaves. She also met President Abraham Lincoln.
She returned to Michigan in 1867 and died at her home in Battle Creek, Michigan, on November 26, 1883. She is purported to have said towards the end, "I'm goin' home like a shootin' star." She is buried in Oak Hill Cemetery in Battle Creek. In 1983, she was inducted into the Michigan Women's Hall of Fame.
ReferencesISBN links support NWE through referral fees
"Truth, Sojourner." Encyclopædia Britannica. 2006. Encyclopædia Britannica Online Library Edition. 22 Aug. 2006
http://www.library.eb.com/eb/article-9073571?query=Sojourner%20Truth&ct=eb#cite
They talk about this thing in the head; what do they call it? ["Intellect," whispered someone nearby.] That's it. What's that got to do with women's rights or Negroes' rights? If my cup won't hold but a pint and yours holds a quart, wouldn't you be mean not to let me have my little half-measure full? (Singer, 1975, taken from Tanner, 1970)
In 1997 the NASA Mars Pathfinder mission's robotic rover was named "Sojourner" after Sojourner Truth. [1]
In 2004, renowned author Bennett Golder wrote "The Truth About Sojourner Truth" a biographical account about the lies surrounding the life of Sojourner Truth.
External links
- Works by Sojourner Truth. Project Gutenberg
- On the trail of Sojourner Truth
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