NAME: Isabella Baumfree (Sojourner Truth) ... FAMILY BACKGROUND: Sojourner Truth was born in 1797 on the Colonel Johannes Hardenbergh estate in Swartekill, in Ulster County, a Dutch settlement

Sojourner Truth Virtual Institute ... Are You Ready For Truth?; That was the name of our campaign to introduce the wonderful monument of Sojourner Truth in downtown Battle Creek.

Sojourner's Amazing Life ; ... And Beyond ... ; The Sojourner Truth Biography ... Taking the Name ; Sojourner Truth

THE subject of this biography, SOJOURNER TRUTH, as she now calls herself–but whose name, originally, was Isabella–was born, as near as she can now calculate, between the years 1797 and 1800.

Sojourner Truth, born in about 1797, was a woman of remarkable intelligence despite her illiteracy. Truth had great presence. She was tall, some 5 feet 11 inches.

Who was Sojourner Truth? ... Sojourner Truth came to Northampton in 1843 to live at the Northampton Association of Education and Industry, a utopian community in Florence.

Sojourner Truth (1797-1883): Ain't I A Woman? Delivered 1851; Women's Convention, Akron, Ohio ; ... Modern History Sourcebook: Sojourner Truth: "Ain't I a Woman?", December 1851

Born Isabella Baumfree, Sojourner Truth was one of the earliest and most passionate of female abolitionists-for she herself had once been a slave.

; Delivered 1851 at the Women's Convention in Akron, Ohio ... Obliged to you for hearing me, and now old Sojourner ain't got nothing more to say.

It was then that she received a calling from God to preach, and it was then that she took the name "Sojourner Truth."