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One of the first black women to speak publicly against slavery, Sojourner Truth traveled the abolitionist lecture circuit, speaking of her life as a slave in New York before the state abolished slavery in 1827. In 1837 she also published an account describing her life as a slave, her conversion to Christianity and her mystical religious beliefs. | |
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Sojourner
Truth, 1864
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