Sojourner Truth And President Ronald Reagan

Sojourner Truth played a vital role in inspiring people to stand up against slavery and injustice. She stood up for herself and every African-American. She had the courage to stand up and leave her slave owner. She stood up for herself and her son in court when he was sold illegally to a slave owner in a different state. She had the moxy to become a public figure and talk about injustice against women and African-American slaves. In the late 1700’s and early 1800’s, no one had ever heard of a woman slave taking a stand to control her and her family’s life. Sojourner Truth was before her time.

Throughout Reagan’s eight years of presidency he had some traumatic events unfold. One very big moment for Reagan was the release of the 53 Americans that had been held hostage in Iran. On the issue of Communism and the Cold War Reagan once said, "Our strategy is defensive; our aim is to protect the peace by ensuring that no adversaries ever conclude they could

Sojourner Truth was born Isabella Baumfree in 1797 as one of 12 children to enslaved parents James and Elizabeth Baumfree. As a young girl Isabella was often traded between owners who could at times be cruel and harsh towards her. In 1815 at around the age of 18 Isabella married a man by the name of Thomas who was also a slave and together they had five children. In 1827 a year before the emancipation act of 1828 that would free all slaves in the state of New York, Isabella ran away leaving behind her husband and children only carrying her infant daughter, Sophia. She had a feeling that her master intended on going back on his word to grant her her freedom. Isabella found solace with a couple by the name of Van Wagener, Isaac Van Wagener a

“Ain’t I a women?” asked Sojourner No one felt like they were being treated fairly during the 19th century. African American women felt as if they were expected too much of. The wanted to be treated more lady like, they were women too so why do they not deserve a chance in society. Just like a white woman. They were expected to do anything a man would do. On top of that they were also expected to do the house chores and taking after other people’s children cooking, cleaning. Was it fair? They stood no chance defending themselves. Even if they deserved better treatment, civil rights. Sojourner truth was one of the few women that never gave up fighting for what they believe in.

Sojourner Truth, an abolitionist and women’s rights activist, was very important to United States history. She did many things in her life to help and improve our country. Sojourner Truth was very brave and not afraid to stand up for what she believed in. She knew that the racism in that time period in the United States was not right, so she did everything she could to fix it. Sojourner Truth not only helped our country, but she also made the United States a better place to live in.

What I find ironically funny is the statement quote used for this essay topic, “Those who do not learn history are doomed to repeat it”. This is something our government needs to take heed to, because they are the ones repeating history. Right now as we speak banks are again selling houses to people that cannot really afford the payments, they are signing contracts without reading the fine print of the balloon rates that are going to make it impossible to keep their

She was able to help free her two brothers, her sister and her sister’s two children and dozens of other people. After the Civil War ended she continued to speak out about racial equality. She became friends with Susan B. Anthony and began to speak out for women’s right to vote. Sojourner Truth was born into slavery in 1883. She is best known for her speech on racial inequalities.

Sojourner had suffered from being a slave and owned by other people. First, she had escaped from slavery and embraced the religion and became involved in the moray reform and the abolitionist work. Second, she collected supplies for the back regiments during the civil war. Third, she immersed herself in advocating for the freed people. All in all, truth was a powerful and an impassional woman and a speaker.

During the 1850ś Sojourner Truth was an African American that made significant remarks during her time. The speeches wrote by Sojourner had a main focus of desegeration. Truth reserved her time to be an abolitionist and recruit black unions into the army. All of her hard work paid off and it led up to her meeting Abraham Lincoln. Overall, three things that made Truth a strong woman were she had numerous times of hardships in her life, she had a voice in women rights, and she became the first black person to beat a case against a white man.

Although he went with a more persuasive approach like Thoreau, he had the goal of making a change following the Cold War. “On June 12, 1987, Ronald Reagan became the second of four American Presidents to deliver a speech at the Brandenburg Gate,” (Andrew). It was obvious that he gave the speech to destroy the Berlin Wall and unite Germany, but what people didn’t realize was it could possibly strengthen the world as a whole. “Mr. Gorbachev, open this gate! ... tear down this wall!” (Eidenmuller 3). Not only did this quote state the main argument in his speech, it also gets the crowd excited about the situation. As he said “tear down this wall,” the crowd erupted which got the leader of Germany to tear down the Berlin wall. “Every man is a Berliner, forced to look upon a scar,” (Eidenmuller 2). Any logical man could see that there were major issues in Germany. The change that Reagan wanted to make was uniting Germany. Although he was an American president, he thought that a united Germany would better the entire world. Reagan, much like Truth wanted to free innocent people of the crimes they never

since the day she was born and all her life until she had escaped in

Reagan’s speech at the Brandenburg gate informed the people of the free world the downfalls of communism, and how it impacted the people of East Berlin. Communism created an oppressive domain on the people, and the limitations they had. Reagan challenged Gorbachev that their Country would flourish if they would unite as one.

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As a black woman, Sojourner Truth used her body to challenge racist and sexist discourses that degraded black women (Minister,2012). Isabella Baumfree was an African American abolitionists and women's rights activist. Baumfree was born into slavery, around 1797 in upstate New York. She later had at least three of her children sold into slavery. In 1826, Isabella claim to hear the voice of God, telling her go out on her own as a free woman." Although, Dumont did not force her to come with him, she had a vision of God at the time she started to climb inside Dumont's carriage. As Dumont continued to be persuasive, she left with him despite the voice she heard. When she woke form her vision Dumont was gone, from the word of her Narrative. New

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