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Facts about Sojourner Truth include:

1. Sojourner Truth was born in New York. Her exact birth date is unknown, but is estimated to be about 1797.

2. She was an American abolitionist and an advocate of women's rights.

3. She could neither read nor write.

4. Her birth name was Isabella Baumfree.

5. She escaped to freedom with her daughter in 1826.

6. She adopted the name Sojourner Truth on June 1, 1843.

7. She is best known for her speech: "Ain't I a Woman?" delivered in 1851 at the Ohio Women's Rights Convention in Akron, Ohio.

8. She met President Abraham Lincoln in 1864 and President Ulysses S. Grant in 1870.

9. She died November 26, 1883 at her home in Battle Creek, Michigan.

10. She was one of the first few black women to win a law suit against a white man.

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She:

# Preached at conventions and meetings. # Won a court case as the first black woman to do so. # Talked to President Lincoln.

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I was so happy. I was the first black women to win a case against a white man before a judge!

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she spoke to abarham Lincoln

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