History of the United States I / Unit 13 USH1 1859 short lesson, about 20 seconds
Sojourner Truth
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The idea
Sojourner Truth was born Isabella Baumfree into slavery and gained her freedom in eighteen twenty-six, then devoted herself to abolition and to women's rights.
In practice
Truth suing to secure her son's freedom and winning, the first Black woman to do so.
Where people slip
Frederick Douglass and William Lloyd Garrison both supported her, and she challenged both of their movements from inside them.
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