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 Sojourner Truth was born into slavery in Ulster County, New York around 1797 or 1798. Her real name was Isabelle Hardenbergh, but Hardenbergh was actually not her official last name. She got a new last name every time she got a new owner, so it was always changing. A long time after that, her master promised her that she could be freed earlier than what the Emancipation Proclomation said, IF she worked harder. So, she worked as hard as she could. But her master thought that wasn't good enough. Sojourner couldn't take it any more, and just ran away to a Quaker home.(Which was a home where religous people live.) any easier, some people still tried to avoid her and be mean to her. One thing that people wouldn't let her do was just simply ride in a streetcar because she was black. But she kept trying to ride, and the conductors kept threatening her but she stayed on anyway. Finally, a few weeks later the president of the streetcar company told the conductors that they needed to let everybody ride, or else they would loose their jobs. Sojourner was happy to see that the streetcars now looked like pepper and salt. Soon after that Sojourner started giving speeches and sang songs about freeing slaves and giving women rights. As Sojourner traveled more, she got a little older and then came her big speech. "Ain't I a Woman!" But since she was getting old she needed to go to a hospital. Sadly, at age 86, Sojourner died on November 26, 1883 in Battle Creek, Michigan. A couple months later a law passed and all women got rights. And the lady who made women get rights never lived to see it happen.

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