Sojourner Truth : Sojourner Truth was a black American freedom fighter and orator. She was a child of African parents – Baumfree and Elizabeth. At the age of 9, she was auctioned of to an Englishman, John Nealy.

The Nealys did not understand her Dutch jargon and she was brutally punished for no real reason. Eventually he sold her to a fisherman.

There she acquired the idiomatic expressions which came to mark her speech. Then John J. Dumont purchased her. During her tenure with his family, she married and had five children.

Even against, Dumont’s reluctance, she ran away with only her youngest child and finally wound up in New York city. She worked at a menial job and through some friends, she came under the sway of a religious fanatic named Mathias.

During the Civil War, Truth bought gifts for the soldiers with’ money raised from her lectures and helped fugitive slaves find work and housing. After the war, she continued her tirade for the Lord and against racial injustice.

In one of her famous speeches entitled as Ain’t I a woman’, she spoke aggressively regarding the injustice and humiliation done to the Negro women.

She blurted bluntly why women couldn’t have as much rights as man because Christ wasn’t a women? She firmly told that women are also as strong as man. She died in Battle Creek, Mich sanatorium on November 26, 1883.