Sojourner Truth was bought and sold four times, ran away in 1827, and successfully sued for the return of her five-year-old son. With the help of a friend she published her life and beliefs in 1850 in the Narrative of Sojourner Truth, which brought national recognition She gave her most famous speech, “Ain’t I A Woman?” at woman’s rights conference in Akron, Ohio in 1851 where all the other speakers were men.Sojourner Truth was bought and sold four times, ran away in 1827, and successfully sued for the return of her five-year-old son. With the help of a friend she published her life and beliefs in 1850 in the Narrative of Sojourner Truth, which brought national recognition She gave her most famous speech, “Ain’t I A Woman?” at woman’s rights conference in Akron, Ohio in 1851 where all the other speakers were men.
Sojourner Truth was bought and sold four times, ran away in 1827, and successfully sued for the return of her five-year-old son. With the help of a friend she published her life and beliefs in 1850 in the Narrative of Sojourner Truth, which brought national recognition She gave her most famous speech, “Ain’t I A Woman?” at woman’s rights conference in Akron, Ohio in 1851 where all the other speakers were men.