Education: Sojourner Truth was born a slave and like many she was illiterate. But despite her illiteracy she was and an incredibly intelligent woman and had a presence about her that would capture any audience.
Sojourner's Accomplishments/ Experience -First African American woman to take a while man to court and win -First African American woman to speck out against slavery -visited President Lincoln in the white house in 1864 -Worked to improve living conditions for free African Americans -Worked to find jobs for free slaves -Appeared before suffrage gathering for women's rights -Delivered her famous speech "Ani't I a Women" at a Women'f rights Convention int Akron, Ohio May 29,1851 -Ran away with a new born about -Was a women's right activist and civil rights abolitionist -Anti- slavery speaker
Speeches/ Qualifications -1843 Specimens of religious talk to second Adventists Windsor Lock, Connecticut -May 28,1851 Woman's Rights Convention Akron, Ohio -September 4, 1853 New York City Anti- Slavery Society Metropolitan Hall, New York City -September 7, 1853 Woman's Rights Convention Broadway Tabernacle, New York City -July 4, 1854 Proceedings at the Anti - Slavery Celebration Framingham, Massachusetts -October 5, 1856 Proceedings of the annual meeting of the friends of Human Progress in Michigan Battle Creek, Michigan -June 3, 1863 State Sabbath School Convention Battle Creek, Michigan -May 9, 1867 First Annual Meeting of the American Equal Rights Association Church of the Puritan, New York City -January 1, 1871 Commemoration of the Eight Anniversary of Negro Freedom in the United States Tremont Temple, Boston, Massachusetts