Daily Post #14

Born into slavery as an African-American, Sojourner Truth was an abolitionist and women's rights activist. She escaped with her infant daughter to freedom in 1826 and afterwards went to court to recover her son, becoming the first black woman to win such an immense case against a white man. Sojourner Truth was named Isabella Baumfree when she was born but gave herself the name Sojourner Truth in 1843. Her best-known extemporaneous speech on gender inequalities, "Ain't I a Woman?" (one of my favorites), was delivered in 1851 at the Ohio Women's Rights Convention in Akron, Ohio. During the Civil War, Truth helped recruit black troops for the Union Army; after the war, she tried unsuccessfully to secure land grants from the federal government for former slaves. Yes all women.