Black Facts = 1883 ( Nov.25)- Sojourner Truth (Isabella Baumfree), preacher, abolitionist, speaker, women’s rights advocate, and author of “Ain’t I A Woman?” died in Battle Creek,MI. Born in upstate New York circa 1797, she was the self-given name, from 1843 onward, of Isabella Baumfree, an African-American abolitionist and women’s rights activist who was born into slavery, but escaped with her infant daughter to freedom in 1826. She devoted her life to the abolitionist cause and helped recruiting black troops for the Union Army. Her best-known speech on racial inequalities, “Ain’t I a Woman?” was delivered extemporaneously in 1851 at the Ohio Women’s Rights Convention. #theraydiotwins
