National Women's Rights Convention

Truth was in slavery she was treated cruel and harsh. Although Truth faced many obstacles, that did not stop her. Truth worked really hard to make a huge difference in the world today. Sojourner Truth is known by many because she fought for the civil rights of others, and she used her knowledge to help inspire other slaves and women. Although born Isabella Baumfree, Sojourner Truth later changed her name in June 1843 because she felt that, “The Spirit call me [East], and I must go... the Lord gave me

first Woman’s Rights Convention, held in Seneca Falls, New York, in July of 1848. Drafted by Elizabeth Cady Stanton, the declaration outlined a series of grievances resulting from the unfair treatment of women and proposed eleven resolutions arguing that women had the right to equality in all aspects of their lives, including the right to vote. Despite the declarations significance, however, it would be seventy-two years later that women finally won the right to vote.

While attending the Womens Rights Convention in Ohio in 1851, According to Frances Gage, who is the president of the Convention, Sojourner Truth encountered several male ministers who arrived and began stating their arguments for why women should not have the same rights as men. Among their reasons were the "facts" that women were weak, men were intellectually superior to women, Jesus was a man, and "our first mother sinned." (source) As a result of this ignorant onslaught of sexist justifications

are being oppressed and fighting to protect their freedoms and rights to equal treatment is something to be admired. One woman that would fall into this category of admiration is none other than Sojourner Truth. Overcoming many of her own personal challenges as an illiterate ex-slave, Truth is a powerful figure in many social movements. She has spoken 'forcefully for the abolition of slavery, women 's rights and suffrage, and the rights of freedmen, temperance, prison reform, and the termination of

Isabella Baumfree, better known as Sojourner Truth, is one of the most influential women's and Black rights figures from the nineteenth century (Smithsonian n.p.). A former slave, she had firsthand experience of the injustices and social inequalities for Black women of the time. After gaining her freedom in 1826, Truth won the right to have her son back from a slave owner in Alabama in a landmark case, winning against a White man in a court (United States n.p.). She then resumed subservient work

New York she moved to Spokane, Washington to work for a children’s home. Spokane is where she became more involved in the Women's Suffrage Movement and later in 1910 gave up her social working career to focus more on women voting rights ( “Jeannette Rankin Foundation”) . She also entered the University of Washington in Seattle and became a professional lobbyist for the National American Suffrage Association (NAWSA) ( RANKIN, Jeannette). Her Speaking and organizing efforts for the movement

Ain’t I a Woman? Sojourner Truth delivered a speech that is commonly known as “Ain’t I a Woman?” in extemporaneous way at a women’s convention in 1851. Sojourner Truth delivered this speech after obtaining her freedom, which made her to be renowned as an anti-slavery speaker. The publicity of Sojourner Truth because of the speech was attributed to the fact that it was delivered during the Civil War in the United States. While this speech was not initially known through any title, it was reported

these things and worked her entire life to get the rights she deserved. Though she never lived to get all of her rights, she was an influential figure in working towards these rights. Sojourner Truth was one of the most famous orators of her time, speaking out against slavery and inequality to anyone who would listen. Being born into slavery, Sojourner Truth witnessed many injustices and, as a result, worked her entire life to fight for the rights of others by using her gift in public speaking to

Sojouner Truth’s speech about women’s rights at the First Annual Meeting of the American Equal Rights Association reminds us that our battle for equal rights has not ended yet. We have already fought for the rights for slaves and we won. Now before everything is settled, according to Sojouner, we should still keep them going until we free all the people in America. Women, the one half population in the United States, deserve to gain equal rights as men, for the same effort they have put into this

equal rights because everyone is equal the color of their skin doesn't change that Sara T. Smith spoke because she wanted to talk about the anti-slavery movement, and also the rights of women to speak upon the subject. The speech was given on May 17th, 1838 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. The occasion impacts the message because it gives her much more meaning to the speech because it is a relevant topic and she is passionate about it as well. The audience was the Second Anti-slavery Convention of American