Sojourner Truth's Struggle Against Slavery

In the slavery time, which is the time that people make African Americans to be slaves and can be traded and sold, and women have no power and voice. The Sojourner family was all slaves and worked for their owner. Sojourner Truth born as a slave too, when she grew up she spoke against slavery and followed the words of God to bring the truth to the people. Sojourner Truth, a woman who faced discrimination for being a woman and being black, but she demonstrated strong faith and confidence in her efforts to speak against the injustices of slavery. Her parents were slaves, so she was destined to be a slave when she was born; then she was sold away from her family to several owners and was being treated harshly by her owners and was discriminated by people because she was a woman, but She was a devout Christian and she had incredible faith to God, she thought that God talked to her and told her to go east to speak truth to people, so she left everything behind and traveled east and even lots of people disrespectful to her(“Sojourner Truth”). She believed in John 8:32, “And ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free” (Whalin 87). Because of her steadfast faith and followed the orders from the Lord and spoke against slavery. These events exemplified steadfast faith and boosted her confidence. She tried as hard as she could to speak against slavery and bring the truth to the people. Because of her faith and her experience her speech was wonderful and touched lots of heart of people. She symbolized antislavery and she …show more content…
She believes in the word of God and that everyone was equal. Because of her faith on God and blondness she moved east to spoke against to slavery and the rights of women. After she died people keep her ideals of justice and freedom alive when they speak against to injustice and scorn