Sojourner Truth (c. 1797–1883) was the self-given name, from 1843, of an American abolitionist born into slavery. (Her original title was Isabella Bomefree, down the road changed to Baumfree; occasionally sources listing her title when Isabella Van Wagener.) A month of her birth is uncertain, however is normally taken to become 1797.

She escaped to Canada in 1827; after New York state abolished slavery, she returned there in 1829, working as the domestic servant for across a decade & joining Elijah Piersin within evangelistic preaching on street-corners.

Sojurner Truth Late inside life she became a noted speaker for each the Abolitionist movement and a women's rights movement. Mayhap one of her best known speeches was "Ain't I a Woman?," a short but well pointed commentary delivered in 1851 at the Women's Convention in Akron, Ohio.

Inside 1841, she went to Northampton, Massachusetts to join a utopian community, the Northampton Association of Education & Industry. While a association disbanded inside 1846, she remained in Florence, Massachusetts, where she worked with the neighbor, Olive Gilbert, to make the life history around 1850, the Narration of Sojourner Truth: The Northern Slave.

Within 1857, Truth moved to Michigan, where she continued her protagonism. When you took a American Civil War, she organized collection of supplies for the Union, & moved to Washington, D.C., after the Emancipation Proclamation was issued to work with former slaves. She too met President Abraham Lincoln.

She returned to Michigan within 1867 and died at her home in Battle Creek, Michigan, on November 26, 1883. She is buried withwithin Oak Hill Cemetery in Battle Creek. Within 1983, she was inducted into the Michigan Women's Hall of Fame.

Inside 1997 the NASA Mars Pathfinder mission's robotic rover was named "Sojourner" when Sojourner Truth.

She was quoted by animal-rights philosopher Peter Singer in Animal Liberation (1975) to support his argument that, whenever purportedly possessing a higher degree of intelligence doesn't justify the abuse by of these gender or even race of an additional, so it as well just can not entitle person beings to exploit non-human being creature:

It talk just about this tool upstairs; what clean it call for it? ["Intellect," whispered someone nearby.] That's it. What's that had to launder by owning women's rights or even Black' rights? Whenever the ventral suction cup won't hang on to however the pint & yours holds the quart, wouldn't that you becomaine mean does'nt to let me use at times our little half-measure to the full? (Singer, 1975, taken from either Tanner, 1970)