Sojourner Truth

Sojourner Truth

female, deceased (1883)
Feminist, abolitionist, suffragist, American women's rights activist, feminism, inspirations to women everywhere…stoodupforwhatshebelievedin
Sojourner Truth was the self-given name, from 1843, of Isabella Baumfree, an American abolitionist. Truth was born into slavery in Swartekill, New...
Harriet Tubman Harriet Tubman

Harriet Tubman Harriet Tubman

female, deceased (1913) (Dorchester)
freedom fighter, stoodupforwhatshebelievedin, inspiration to women everywhere, African-American, African-American history, wartime spy…African American in the Civil War, born a slave in Maryland, born around 1820 in Maryland, born 1821 in Dorchester county, in college
Harriet Tubman (1820 - 1913) escaped slavery in Maryland in 1849 and traveled north. She then helped hundreds of other slaves flee to the north to...