Sojurner Truth

This is Sojourner Truth as a kid

Sojourner Truth was born in 1797 in Alster County, New York

http://www.biography.com/people/sojourner-truth-9511284

This is the first statue that was released at battle creek Michigan Monument Park since Truth died in 1883

The plaques say '' Lord I have done my duty and i have sold the truth and kept nothing back... ...and truth shall be my abiding name

Did you know that Sojurner Truth's real name was Isabella Baumfree? And Sojourner Truth was her name in 1840 and so on.

Did you know that the year after the year she changed her name to Sojourner Truth, she joined forces with Fredrick Douglass and William Lloyd Garrison?

Sojurner truth was sold at age 11 along with a flock of sheep for 100 dollars. She also was born into slavery and talked about how she was sexually abused.

During thee civil war she recruited troops for the union army and met with President Lincoln in 1864 who gave her permission to become a counselor at the union village

That man over there says that women need to be helped into carriages, and lifted over ditches, and to have the best place everywhere. Nobody ever helps me into carriages, or over mud-puddles, or gives me any best place! And ain't I a woman? Look at me! Look at my arm! I have ploughed and planted, and gathered into barns, and no man could head me! And ain't I a woman? I could work as much and eat as much as a man - when I could get it - and bear the lash as well! And ain't I a woman? I have borne thirteen children, and seen most all sold off to slavery, and when I cried out with my mother's grief, none but Jesus heard me! And ain't I a woman?hat man over there says that women need to be helped into carriages, and lifted over ditches, and to have the best place everywhere. Nobody ever helps me into carriages, or over mud-puddles, or gives me any best place! And ain't I a woman? Look at me! Look at my arm! I have ploughed and planted, and gathered into barns, and no man could head me! And ain't I a woman? I could work as much and eat as much as a man - when I could get it - and bear the lash as well! And ain't I a woman? I have borne thirteen children, and seen most all sold off to slavery, and when I cried out with my mother's grief, none but Jesus heard me! And ain't I a woman?