Women’s Suffrage When her son Peter was illegally sold into slavery in Alabama, she filed charges and became the first African American woman to win a lawsuit. Truth worked with the Women’s Suffragist Movement until Elizabeth Cady Staton said that she did not support the vote for black women. Truth gave her famous “Ar’nt I a Woman?” speech at the Women’s Rights Convention.
Works In the Narrative of Sojourner Truth she described the severe conditions she endured as a slave. Truth was a nonviolent abolitionist and orator, and believed when African Americans put their faith in God, slavery would not …show more content…
He only retuned after his freedom was purchased by abolitionists. Douglass published the most influential black newspaper North Star, Frederick Douglass’ Papers, and the Douglass Monthly. Years later, he wrote his second autobiography, My Bondage and My Freedom, which was on racial equality. In Douglass’s third and last autobiography, Life and Times of Frederick Douglass, he looked back on his previous works, the progress of the nation, and his hopes for the