Sojourner Truth Quotes


When I preaches, I has just one text to preach from, an' I always preaches from this one. My text is, 'When I found Jesus.'


Citations

Stowe, Harriet Beecher. "Sojourner Truth, The Libyan Sibyl." The Atlantic Monthly, vol. 11, no. 66, April 1863, p. 478.

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Sojourner Truth
Sojourner Truth
  • Born: November 18, 1787
  • Died: November 26, 1883
  • Nationality: American
  • Profession: Abolitionist, Author, Human Rights Activist

Sojourner Truth was an American abolitionist and women's rights activist. Truth was born into slavery in Swartekill, New York, but escaped with her infant daughter to freedom in 1826. After going to court to recover her son in 1828, she became the first black woman to win such a case against a white man.