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Isabella Baumfree was an African-American abolitionist emancipationist born in Ulster County, New York around November 26, 1797.However, escaped to freedom with her youngest daughter, Sophia in 1826.Not long after her elusion Isabella ensured her five-year-old son who had been sold illegally to a man in Alabama. Baumfree brought her issue to court and ensured Peter’s retreat from the South. In 1826, Isabella Baumfree was the first person to thrivingly challenge a man in a U.S Courthouse. On 1843, Isabella Baumfree changed her name to Sojourner Truth.Truths most popular speech was given in 1851, at the Ohio Women's Rights Convention in Akron, Ohio.The speech is commonly known as “ Ain’t I a Woman? ”, it was an alteration of the original

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