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Christopher White, age 14, of Brownsville, Texas, for his question:

WHO WAS SOJOURNER TRUTH?

Sojourner Truth was a famous American abolitionist and advocate of women's rights. She was born into slavery in Usiter County, N.Y., and was freed when New York State emancipated slaves in 1828.

A mystic who heard voices she belived to be Gods, Sojourner Truth arrived in New York City in 1829 where she preached in the streets. In 1843 she came into contact with the abolitionist movement, which she enthusiastically embraced and for the next few years she toured the country speaking in its behalf.

Encountering the women's right movement in 1850, she also added its causes to hers.

During the Civil War she solicited gifts for black volunteer regiments. President Abraham Lincoln received her in the White House in 1864.

Sojourner Truth continued to stump the country on speaking tours until 1875. An illiterate all her life, she was nevertheless an effective speaker and was endowed with a charisma that often drew large crowds to her informal lecturers.

 

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