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Definition of Sojourner Truth

1. Noun. United States abolitionist and feminist who was freed from slavery and became a leading advocate of the abolition of slavery and for the rights of women (1797-1883).

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Literary usage of Sojourner Truth

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. A Short History of the American Negro by Benjamin Griffith Brawley (1919)
"Sojourner Truth.—Two Negroes, because of their unusual gifts, ... Sojourner Truth was born of slave parents about 1798 in Ulster County, New York. ..."

2. Rev. Calvin Fairbank During Slavery Times: How He "fought the Good Fight" to by Calvin Fairbank (1890)
"Sojourner Truth. I must not forget Sojourner. I met her first ai Worcester, Massachusetts, about August or September, 1850, at a Woman's Bights convention ..."

3. The Theology of Christ, from His Own Words by Joseph Parrish Thompson (1871)
"The faith of Sojourner Truth was as ready for her own necessities as for the sorrows of her people. Her child had been stolen and sold into slavery; ..."

4. A Social History of the American Negro, Being a History of the Negro Problem by Benjamin Griffith Brawley (1921)
"Sojourner Truth and Woman Suffrage With its challenge to the moral consciousness it was but natural that anti-slavery should soon become allied with ..."

5. A Social History of the American Negro, Being a History of the Negro Problem by Benjamin Griffith Brawley (1921)
"Sojourner Truth and Woman Suffrage With its challenge to the moral consciousness it was but natural that anti-slavery should soon become allied with ..."

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