Truth Sojourner Truth: Women In Slavery

“I feel safe in the midst of my enemies, for the truth is all powerful and will prevail.” Truth Sojourner, who used to call Isabella Baumfree, became one of the major powerful spokeswomen for human rights in the nineteenth century. On her young age, she owned by a Dutch American called Colonel Johannes Hardenberg in New York. Like other slaves, she was mistreated and got abused. She was obligated to marry a man called Tomas, with whom she had five children. In 1827 when her owner failed to keep his promise to set her free or to approve the New York Anti-Slavery law, she ran away, and letter told her master, “I did not run away, I walked away by daylight…” After a while, she became an itinerant preacher. During this period she became involved in the growing antislavery movement,

Having children does not mean that women hindered from doing things. She speaks for herself and other women that have born children in slavery. She wants to address women's emotion because a man does not understand how women feel when her children sold into slavery. “No one could hear a mother's grief because no one feels the pain but women and God." Sojourner by speaking wisely and boldly she addressed unfair and moral inaccuracy of gender and race discrimination. Her way of description about the injustices occurring at that time was valid and was successful to create a desire for change in Africa American woman’s heart. By reading her speech text, it is easy to realize that she was very emotional full of anger and sadness. The most important thing is she tried to provoke each of her audience so they can realize that they have to fight, now or never. Through her words, we can feel her energy, her anger, and her invitation to join her