Sojourner Truth Statue at Sojourner Family Peace Center

Sojourner Truth Statue at Sojourner Family Peace Center WWP

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Sojourner Truth’s bronze statue stands outside the emergency domestic violence shelter for women and children, which also bears her name. It was dedicated on the same day as the new campus on April 25th, 2016, in a special ceremony that included a reading of Truth’s famous speech: “Ain’t I A Woman.”

Sojourner Truth (1797-1883) was born into slavery by the name Isabella Baumfree. She was sold and transferred between several masters and sometimes suffered from physical and sexual abuse.
In 1826, she escaped to freedom with her infant daughter. Two years later, when she discovered that her son was sold to a new owner in Alabama, she sued the new master and won, becoming the first black woman to file and win a case against a white man in court.

In 1843, she answered the spirit of God’s call, changed her name to Sojourner Truth, and became a public preacher and speaker, devoting her life to advocating for abolition and women’s right.

Sojourner Family Peace Center was established in 1975 and named after the national heroine Sojourner Truth, who was a victim of violence and abuse and transformed her life to promoting peace, love, and equality for African-Americans and women. It is Wisconsin’s largest nonprofit provider of domestic violence prevention and intervention services.

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Sojourner Truth (born Isabella Baumfree, c. 1797 to November 26, 1883) was an African-American abolitionist and women's rights activist best-known for her speech on racial inequalities, "Ain't I a Woman?", delivered extemporaneously in 1851 at the Ohio Women's Rights Convention. Truth was born into slavery but escaped with her infant daughter to freedom in 1826. She devoted her life to the abolitionist cause and helped to recruit black troops for the Union Army. Although Truth began her career as an abolitionist, the reform causes she sponsored were broad and varied, including prison reform, property rights and universal suffrage. #Biography
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Sojourner Truth (born Isabella Baumfree, c. 1797 to November 26, 1883) was an African-American abolitionist and women's rights activist best-known for her speech on racial inequalities, "Ain't I a Woman?", delivered extemporaneously in 1851 at the Ohio Women's Rights Convention. Truth was born into slavery but escaped with her infant daughter to freedom in 1826. She devoted her life to the abolitionist cause and helped to recruit black troops for the Union Army. Although Truth began her career as an abolitionist, the reform causes she sponsored were broad and varied, including prison reform, property rights and universal suffrage. #Biography
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