Sojourner Truth, born into slavery in 1797 as Isabella Baumfree in Swartekill (now Rifton), Ulster County on the western shores of the Hudson River, was a noted abolitionist and suffragist. She was a slave until 1827, the year New York finally outlawed slavery (though she had to leave some of her children behind when sheContinue reading “170 Years Ago Today Sojourner Truth Delivers ‘Aint I a Woman’ Speech”
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