Book Review: Woman of Courage: Sojourner Truth

Women of Courage: Sojourner Truth

All Men (and Women) Are Created Equal

by Compiled by Barbour Staff

Barbour Publishing, Inc.

Barbour Books

Biographies & Memoirs. , Christian

Pub Date 01 Feb 2020.

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In this book we learn of Sojourner’s Truth’s commitment. Despite not being able to read Sojourner Truth dictate The Narrative of Sojourner Truth to a friend allowing others to know how she had been freed from slavery determined to use her story to help others, she also realized that not only slaves needed liberation though, but women did as well. Sojourner Truth joined the movement in the late 1840’s. At first the Abolitionist and Women’s Movement’s joined forces until the separatists wanted to split the movements.

Sojourner Truth became popular in the Anti-Slavery and women’s right movements after her autobiography.

By the Mid 1850’s, Sojourner Truth had become known all over the United State. She wasn’t the only black woman whose anti slavery efforts drew attention. During this period, Harriet Tubman, the poet Frances E. W. Harper, and the abolitionist Sarah Remond often…