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Sojourner Truth

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Sojourner Truth

Also known as: Isabella Baumfree

Gender: Female

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Sojourner Truth challenges exclusion at a women’s rights convention

đź“… 29 May 1851

Sojourner Truth addressed the women’s rights convention in Akron, challenging assumptions that separated womanhood from the experiences of Black women. Accounts of her speech differ; the famous...