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Sojourner Truth Ain T I A Woman

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The nineteenth century is considered to be full of achievements, development, and liberty. In the eyes of the American people, they focused on their Independence and liberty, and equality between all the people in the society. Every year on July 4, people celebrate the Declaration of Independence, and that day became a symbol for liberty, justice and equality. Despite all of that, there were still some people who had not felt the freedom and couldn’t understand the meaning of the independence because no change happened to their life after that day, they were slaves and they will remain slaves after July 4th. Women's struggle for full equality with men has been going on for decades. One of the famous women at that time was Sojourner Truth (1797 - 1883). She was the first black activist to bring together the rights of women and slaves. Truth publicly demanded the abolition of slavery and granting women the right to vote. She gave her most famous speech; "Ain’t I a Woman?" at the Ohio Women's Congress in Ohio in 1851. She was born in 1797 as a slave, sold to a man named Nili, who raped and beat her daily. In 1815, she met a slave named Robert from the neighboring farm and loved him. Robert’s owner was against this relationship, and beat Robert harshly, and prevented him from seeing Truth again. In 1817, Truth was forced by her owner at that time, Dumont, to marry an elderly slave named Thomas, and had several children. In 1826, he fled with their infant daughter, Sophia, in

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