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    Sojourner Truth, estimated to have been born in New York around 1797, was born into slavery in as Isabella Baumfree. After escaping from her slave master with her daughter Sophia in 1826, Truth went through many hardships, and then eventually converted to Christianity, changed her name, and devoted her life to the abolition of slavery. Truth began speaking about abolition and rights in 1850. In 1851, she gave her most famous speech, “Ain’t I a Woman?”, at the Ohio Women's Rights Convention. Truth

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    Sojourner Truth was a strong, courageous woman. She was born into slavery and lived a difficult, unbreakable life. After many years of being a slave, she was finally freed. Sojourner faced many hardships in her life. She learned to obey her masters and she was promised by many who never kept their word. First, Sojourner faced countless hardships in her life. At the age of nine years old, she was sold at an auction with a flock of sheep for $100. She was beaten over 30 years on a daily basis

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    Sojourner Truth was a strong woman. First, sojourner is an african American abolitionist for the woman rights. Second, Truth was born speaking Dutch at the age of nine years old. Third, she was born into slavery, and she had slave parents. All in all, Truth is a very strong confident woman. 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

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    Sojourner Truth was an extremely strong and courageous woman. She proceeded through many hardships and Truth even escaped the bondage from slavery. After that she spoke out for women’s rights and was even the first African American woman to take a white man to court and win. Throughout her eighty six years of life Sojourner Truth she stumbled through numerous hardships, escaped slavery, and spoke out on women’s rights. First, Truth was a slave for most of her life.In earlier years Truth

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    Sojourner Truth was a strong, caring, brave woman. As a child, truth was not treated properly. Her feet were exposed to frostbite during the winter; her owner did not provide her with shoes. Truth went through many terrible things during her life, she learned various things at an early age, and received various whippings. These encounters forced Truth to grow up at an early stage in her life. First, this courageous woman had a bouldered time throughout her childhood. As a child, she went through

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    Sojourner Truth Biography

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    women’s rights activist. Her bravery and courage began the moment she was born. Truth faced the daily struggles of a black woman in the 1800s. She went from having lived with at least four owners to becoming a free woman in 1828. In 1828, the state of New York emancipated all slaves for people over forty years of age. Truth was now free and achieved her first goal as a strong black woman activist. One of her owners had illegally sold her five year old son, Peter, into slavery out of state.

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    Sojourner Truth Thesis

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    Isabella Baumfree, by James and Betsey Baumfree. Growing up, she only spoke a bit of Dutch and similar to most slaves, Sojourner never learned to read and write. She and her family were the assets of Colonel Johannes Hardenbergh. She lived on a New York Estate and was beaten and mistreated like most slaves at the time. During her time in slavery, around 1815, Truth married a slave named Thomas and bore children with him. She was sold to four more owners afterwards, until she strode to freedom around

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    Sojourner Truth was a strong, courageous woman. She once met President Abraham Lincoln and told him the story of her life as a slave. Sojourner has been through many rough patches in her life but also has helped revolutionize the rights of women. She became a supporter of both women's rights and abolition, or the fight to end slavery. Also, at women's rights convention in 1851, she gave one of her most famous speeches, called "Ain't I a Woman." Sojourner endured many hardships during her life. She

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    Isabella Baumfree or otherwise known as Sojourner Truth was a slave in Ulster County, New York, until she gained her freedom in 1827. In 1843, Truth decided to become an abolitionist and a feminist and gave the speech Ain’t I A Woman? in a women’s convention, in Akron, Ohio. Truth uses rhetorical strategies such as juxtaposition and pathos to call an action against gender inequality and to connect with the audience. In addition to using juxtaposition and pathos, Truth also uses ethos to stress that

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    her pseudonym (Sojourner Truth A Life). As for the abolitionist movement, Truth gave support in the fight against slavery. She is now memorialized as one the foremost social reformers of her generation (Sojourner Truth Nation Parks). In Rifton, New York, Isabella Baumfree was born in about 1797 (K. Hillstrom & L. Hillstrom). She was born into slavery and her owner was Johannes Hardenbergh (Sojourner Truth A Life). By the time she was nine years old, Truth had been purchased and sold many times.

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