{"id":10074,"date":"2014-08-01T01:10:17","date_gmt":"2014-08-01T06:10:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/paganpages.org\/content\/?p=10426"},"modified":"2014-08-01T05:25:12","modified_gmt":"2014-08-01T10:25:12","slug":"warrior-women-10","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/paganpages.org\/emagazine\/2014\/08\/01\/warrior-women-10\/","title":{"rendered":"Warrior Women"},"content":{"rendered":"

I just love the name Sojourner Truth. I don\u2019t think I have ever come across a name as wonderful as Sojourner Truth.
\nShe was born around 1797, or perhaps 1787. Records of slave children were not kept. Standard practice at the time. Her name at birth was Isabella Baumfree. She was born in Ulster County, New York and spent her early years living and working on the farm of her family\u2019s owner, ninety-five miles north of New York City. Between 1806 and 1808, Sojourner Truth was sold as a slave three times.
\nA very inauspicious start to life, I\u2019d say. But the circumstances of her early life did not stop Miss Sojourner Truth. On the contrary, she used her adverse experiences as a springboard to a life of working towards the eradication of slavery and advocating women\u2019s rights.
\nIn 1843, Isabella Baumfree changed her name to Sojourner Truth and so began her lifelong work. She travelled extensively, spoke on the street corners and in assembly halls, arranged for donations of food and clothing for black soldiers during the Civil War and traveled to the White House to meet President Abraham Lincoln.
\nMiss Sojourner Truth worked tirelessly to advocate for women\u2019s rights \u2013 black and white. I am in awe, and have great respect for, a woman who turned a wretched childhood into a life of fighting for the rights of the downtrodden \u2013 rights that she had been denied.
\nIn 1883, Sojourner Truth left this life. She is buried with her family in Battle Creek, Michigan.
\n(In 1851, Ms Truth gave a speech at a women\u2019s convention in Ohio. It was entitled Ain\u2019t I a Woman? and took the world by storm. If you want to read it, and I recommend that you do, click on this link: http:\/\/www.fordham.edu\/halsall\/mod\/sojtruth-woman.asp<\/a>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I just love the name Sojourner Truth. I don\u2019t think I have ever come across a name as wonderful as Sojourner Truth. She was born around 1797, or perhaps 1787. Records of slave children were not kept. Standard practice at the time. Her name at birth was Isabella Baumfree. She was born in Ulster County, New York and spent her early years living and working on the farm of her family\u2019s owner, ninety-five miles north of New York City. Between 1806 and 1808, Sojourner Truth was sold as a slave three times. A very inauspicious start to life, I\u2019d say. But the circumstances of her early life did not stop Miss Sojourner Truth. On the contrary, she used her adverse experiences as a springboard to a life of working towards the eradication of slavery and advocating women\u2019s rights. In 1843, Isabella Baumfree changed her name to Sojourner Truth and so began her lifelong work. She travelled extensively, spoke on the street corners and in assembly halls, arranged for donations of food and clothing for black soldiers during the Civil War and traveled to the White House to meet President Abraham Lincoln. Miss Sojourner Truth worked tirelessly to advocate for women\u2019s rights \u2013 black and white. I am in awe, and have great respect for, a woman who turned a wretched childhood into a life of fighting for the rights of the downtrodden \u2013 rights that she had been denied. In 1883, Sojourner Truth left this life. She is buried with her family in Battle Creek, Michigan. (In 1851, Ms Truth gave a speech at a women\u2019s convention in Ohio. It was entitled Ain\u2019t I a Woman? and took the world by storm. If you want to read it, and I recommend that you do, click on this link: http:\/\/www.fordham.edu\/halsall\/mod\/sojtruth-woman.asp)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":187,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10074","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/paganpages.org\/emagazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10074","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/paganpages.org\/emagazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/paganpages.org\/emagazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paganpages.org\/emagazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/187"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paganpages.org\/emagazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10074"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/paganpages.org\/emagazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10074\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/paganpages.org\/emagazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10074"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paganpages.org\/emagazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10074"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paganpages.org\/emagazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10074"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}