Sojourner Truth: Women's Rights Activist

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Sojourner Truth is amongst one of the most popular and inspirational African American female freedom fighters. Originally born Isabella, Sojourner Truth was separated from her family at young age due the structure of transatlantic slavery. She was a victim of harsh slavery, where her strength was exploited and she was subjects to extreme punishments. Even in the mist of her circumstance, she managed to find happiness through her four children which she had while enslaved; once she was freed she even successfully sued for the freedom of one of her children. Though Sojourner Truth never learned to read and write, she proved to that women were essential to the growth and development of the United Stated and African American people

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