LIFE IN ANTEBELLUM AMERICA 1807 1861
SLAVERY IN AMERICA COTTON SLAVE TRADE AND THE SOUTHERN RESPONSE
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None of her children were sold to slavery
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She was born a slave in Upstate New York
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She wrote the Speech to the Women’s Rights Convention in Akron
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She was born a slave in Virginia
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Detailed explanation-1: -During Sojourner Truth’s famous 1851 speech at the Women’s Rights Convention in Akron, Ohio, she used the phrase “Ain’t I a Woman?” four times to emphasize the need to fight for equal rights for African American women.
Detailed explanation-2: -Garrison’s anti-slavery organization encouraged Truth to give speeches about the evils of slavery. She never learned to read or write. In 1850, she dictated what would become her autobiography-The Narrative of Sojourner Truth-to Olive Gilbert, who assisted in its publication.
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.