Time for a change

Sojourner Truth was a major figure in the advancement of slaves leading to the abolition of slavery. She was bought and sold 4 different times in her life to wealthy slave owners. In 1826 her and her infant daughter escaped slavery and was taken in by an abolitionist family. The family that took her in bought her freedom for $20, but her daughter was sold into slavery at the age of 5.

"Look at me! Look at my arm! I have ploughed and planted, and gathered into barns, and no man could head me!"

"And ain't I a woman?"

"I could work as much and eat as much as a man - when I could get it - and bear the lash as well!"

"And ain't I a woman?"

https://www.nps.gov/articles/sojourner-truth.htm

This speech "Ain't I a Woman" was one of the most symbolic speeches of the abolitionist era. It was given at the Ohio Women's Rights Convention in Akron, Ohio. The speech made it into the Anti-Slavery Bugle newspaper a month later.

https://www.biography.com/activist/sojourner-truth

Sojourner Truth also helped recruit black troops for the union army. Her views were seen as radical even though she was illiterate. She not only fought for the abolishment of slavery, but also for the advancement of women's rights as a whole.