Olive Gilbert

The Narrative of Sojourner Truth (Dodo Press) Olive Gilbert

Sojourner Truth (1797-1883) was the selfgiven name, from 1843, of Isabella Baumfree, an American abolitionist and womenâ??s rights activist. Truth was born into slavery in Swartekill, New York. Her best-known speech, Ainâ??t I a Woman?, was delivered in 1851 at the Ohio Womenâ??s Rights Convention in Akron, Ohio. She is commemorated together with Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Amelia Bloomer and Harriet Ross Tubman in the calendar of saints of the Episcopal Church on July 20, the date of Stantonâ??s death.