Narrative of Sojourner Truth (Including "Ain't I a Woman?" Momentous Speech)

This eBook edition of "The Narrative of Sojourner Truth" has been formatted to the highest digital standards and adjusted for readability on all devices. Sojourner Truth (c. 1797 - 1883) was an African-American abolitionist and women's rights activist.

Truth was born into slavery in Swartekill, Ulster County, New York, but escaped with her infant daughter to freedom in 1826.

After going to court to recover her son, in 1828 she became the first black woman to win such a case against a white man. Truth started dictating her memoirs to her friend Olive Gilbert, and in 1850 William Lloyd Garrison privately published her book, The Narrative of Sojourner Truth: A Northern Slave.

Ain't I a Woman? (1851) is Truth's best-known speech was delivered extemporaneously, in 1851, at the Ohio Women's Rights Convention in Akron. Contents:The Narrative of Sojourner TruthHer Birth and ParentageAccommodationsHer Brothers and SistersHer Religious InstructionThe AuctionDeath of Mau-mau BettLast Days of BomefreeDeath of BomefreeCommencement of Isabella's Trials in LifeTrials ContinuedHer Standing With Her New Master and MistressIsabella's MarriageIsabella as a MotherSlaveholder's PromisesHer EscapeIllegal Sale of Her SonIt Is Often Darkest Just Before DawnDeath of Mrs. Eliza FowlerIsabella's Religious ExperienceNew TrialsMy Dear and Beloved MotherFinding a Brother and SisterGleaningsThe Matthias DelusionFastingThe Cause of Her Leaving the CityThe Consequences of Refusing a Traveller a Night's LodgingSome of Her Views and ReasoningsThe Second Advent DoctrinesAnother Camp MeetingHer Last Interview With Her MasterCertificates of CharacterAin't I a Woman?