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Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, Washington, D.C.
Sojourner Truth
1864
Sojourner Truth was born into slavery in New York in 1797. In 1826, she escaped slavery and moved to New York City, where she became a preacher and advocate for women’s rights. She delivered her famous “Ar’n’t I a Woman” speech in 1851 at the Ohio Women’s Rights Convention, in which she championed the rights of women and people of color.