USA HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -A former slave, Sojourner Truth became an outspoken advocate for abolition, temperance, and civil and women’s rights in the nineteenth century.

Detailed explanation-2: -Sojourner Truth During the Civil War Like another famous escaped enslaved woman, Harriet Tubman, Truth helped recruit Black soldiers during the Civil War. She worked in Washington, D.C., for the National Freedman’s Relief Association and rallied people to donate food, clothes and other supplies to Black refugees.

Detailed explanation-3: -Sojourner Truth, legal name Isabella Van Wagener, (born c. 1797, Ulster county, New York, U.S.-died November 26, 1883, Battle Creek, Michigan), African American evangelist and reformer who applied her religious fervour to the abolitionist and women’s rights movements.

Detailed explanation-4: -Two great early 19th-century social movements sought to end slavery and secure equal rights for women. Gerrit Smith and Susan B. Anthony helped shape these two movements.

Detailed explanation-5: -Sojourner Truth delivers powerful speech on African American women’s rights. At the Ohio Women’s Rights Convention, on May 29, 1851, the formerly enslaved woman, Sojourner Truth, rises to speak and assert her right to equality as a woman, as well as a Black American.