Sojourner Truth Abolition, And Women's Narrative

“Truth said that she used to be sold for other people’s benefit, but now she sold herself for her own” ( McGill 4). Sojourner Truth was born a slave to a dutch owner who later sold her to a northern plantation owner at the age of six. When action in the states took to emancipate slavery, her slave owner refused to let her be free. Truth managed to escape, then experienced a revelation from God that said she must spread her story as a female slave. Truth is known for being the first black female abolitionist to speak of slavery from a female perspective. Sojourner Truth’s American impact lies in her work with abolition and women’s rights. Sojourner Truth’s narrative forcefully exposed the slavery beneath the northern states. For example, the degree of impact is expressed in the following quote,“Northern setting of Truth’s Narrative also provides a challenge to traditional notions on the sectional nature of slavery...The work thus contradicts to a large extent the ideas of the North as a beacon of freedom that sharply contrasted with the slaveholding South, a conception of regional differences that informed Northern and Southern perceptions and politics in the years leading up to the Civil War” (Vaughn 415). Truth challenges her present day notions about the misconceptions of the North and South. While also, disenchanting the present day slaves looking for freedom in the North, but informing the public on …show more content…
Truth’s narrative helped people from her time and the present realize the truth behind the ‘free’ North. Truth’s stunning win against a white man in court gave hope to all kinds of people in reaching acknowledgment by the law. Truth’s “Ain’t I a Woman?”speech is used to demonstrate the sexism that is still around today. Sojourner Truth is a woman that worked with a world that was less than kind to her, and revolutionized the mark of a black woman in American