#sojournertruth

[cartermagazine]

Today We Honor Sojourner Truth Sojourner Truth was born in 1797 on the Colonel Johannes Hardenbergh estate in Swartekill, a Dutch settlement in upstate New York. She was born to Elizabeth and James Baumfree, also slaves on the Hardenbergh plantation. She spoke only Dutch until she suffered cruel treatment at the hands of a later master, she learned to speak English quickly, but had a Dutch accent for the rest of her life. Her book, The Narrative of Sojourner Truth: A Northern Slave allowed Sojourner to tour and speak to woman across the nation. In 1854, at the Ohio Woman’s Rights Convention in Akron, Ohio, she gave her most famous, “Ain’t I a Woman?” “That man over there says that women need to be helped into carriages, and lifted over ditches, and to have the best place everywhere. Nobody ever helps me into carriages, or over mud puddles, or gives me any best place, and ain’t I a woman? … I have plowed, and planted, and gathered into barns, and no man could head me — and ain’t I a woman? I could work as much and eat as much as a man (when I could get it), and bear the lash as well — and ain’t I a woman? I have borne thirteen children and seen most all sold off to slavery and when I cried out with my mother’s grief, none but Jesus heard me — and ain’t I woman? CARTER™ Magazine carter-mag.com #wherehistoryandhiphopmeet #historyandhiphop365 #cartermagazine #carter #staywoke #sojournertruth #blackhistory #blackhistorymonth #history #blacktwitter https://www.instagram.com/p/Cmd2WPouGFc/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

[intriguingpeoplebyangelafloyd]

SOJOURNER TRUTH

SOJOURNER TRUTH

c.1797-1883

Activist and Feminist

            Sojourner Truth was born into slavery, from Swartekill, New York and only spoke the Dutch language until she was aged 9 and then learned English.

            Truth gained freedom in 1826 and left with her child, her former master demanded she returned but she refused. She went to court to demand the return of one of her children who had been sold to the South which was illegal at the time. In 1828, her son was returned to her.

            She spent the rest of her life as a wandering Christian preacher, and moved from the city to the country because she believed that is what God wanted.  

            She preached against abolition and helped recruit African black troops for the Union Army. She campaigned for equal rights for African people and fought for women to have the right to vote. She toured America delivering lectures and debating.

            At the end of her life she was cared by her two daughters, she died on 28 November 1883, at her Battle Creek home, aged 86.

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[kanisemarshallofficial]

Celebrating Black History Month! Check back every day for new highlighted figures, creators, businesses, or media.

[mdanishurrahman]

NOISEMAKERS of the Week

Women's Equality Day is observed each year in the month of August. The day celebrates the passage of the 19th Amendment, which granted women the right to vote on August 26, 1920. With the ratification of this amendment, millions of women across the country were finally able to make their voices heard by voting.

This week we celebrate as "Noisemakers of the Week" the trailblazing women who fought to deliver a better future for all American women. Suffrage activists such as Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Lucretia Mott, Frederick Douglass, Sojourner Truth, Susan B. Anthony and Alice Paul defied danger, used their voices, and worked tirelessly for decades to realize what we know today as basic rights - the right to vote and own property.

The 2022 Women's Equality Day theme is: “Celebrating Women's Right to Vote" a right more important than ever in the wake of the Supreme Court decision to overturn Roe v. Wade and eliminate a woman’s constitutional right to choose.

In acknowledging the day, The White House issued a Presidential Proclamation, reading in part:

"On August 26, 1920, after decades of hard-fought advocacy, women won the right to vote, and our Nation moved one step closer to living out our sacred ideal that all people are created equal. On Women’s Equality Day, we honor the movement for universal suffrage that led to the 19th Amendment, celebrate the progress of women over the years, and renew our commitment to advancing gender equity and protecting women’s rights." To read more, please visit https://us2.campaign-archive.com/...

[kheelcenter]

“Ain’t I A Woman?”

An excerpt from one of the most famous women's rights and abolitionist speeches, by Sojourner Truth at the Women's Rights Convention in 1854.

Description:  Images of Labor "Look at me! Look at my arm! I have ploughed and planted. And ain't I a woman? I could work as much and eat as much as a man -- when I could get it -- and bear the lash as well -- And ain't I a woman?" -- Sojourner Truth (Speech at Women's Rights Convention, 1854) #WomensRights #SojournerTruth #Abolitionist #CornellILR #LaborHistory #Labor Archives #ArchivesOfInstagram #ILRSchool #LaborRights #Strikes @CornellILR @CornellTextileIndustry #CornellFashionCollection

[trascapades]

🖤🎼#ArtIsAWeapon

#BlackHistoryMonth My beautiful, brilliant friend @ammawhatt reflects on Black women freedom fighters who have inspired and empowered us! ✊🏿

Check out Amma's performance with @natesmithdrums + KINFOLK & The @MemphisSymphonyOrchestra -

www.npr.org/2022/12/01/1140116646/nate-smith-kinfolk-with-strings-live-at-crosstown-arts

Reposted from @jazznightinamerica & @npr Singer-songwriter, Amma Watt, spoke to @jazznightinamerica about some of the Black women who have inspired her. Visit the link in our bio to watch her perform with Nate Smith + KINFOLK + the Memphis Symphony Orchestra at Crosstown Arts in Memphis, TN. You can also listen to the radio episode, which features an interview with Nate Smith.

Producer: Nikki Birch

Animator: @Jackie.Lay

#SojournerTruth #HarrietTubman #AngelaDavis #ShirleyChisolm

#JazzNightInAmerica #NPR #AmmaWhatt #NateSmithDrums #Jazz

[mtaartsdesign]

“I am the Next,” the new #MTAArts poster by @frankmorrison, celebrates the power and potential of the next generation of young black and brown women. A girl wearing a backpack carries a notebook nodding to Sojourner Truth’s powerful speech “Ain’t I a Woman?”, stands tall in New York City, looking ambitiously towards the future. She exudes energy, intelligence and confidence. #InternationalWomensDay is a call to action for gender equality, “I am the Next” encourages all of us to empower young women today and every day. #IAmTheNext

[wayofdreams]

En plus de cinq années de correspondance, Renaldo et moi avons échangé énormément d'images. Nous avons envie d'inclure ces échanges iconographiques dans la bande dessinée, ainsi que les images qui ont été malheureusement refusées par la prison. Certaines d'entre elles ont guidé mes choix graphiques. Certaines permettent aussi d'évoquer des figures auxquelles on ne pourra jamais assez rendre hommage. "I sell the Shadow to Support the Substance", portrait de l'abolitionniste Sojourner Truth à soixante-sept ans, 1864. À gauche : Carrie Mae Weems "You Became a Scientific Profile", 1995-1996. À droite : Alison Bechdel "Fun Home", 2006.

[laabmagazine]

On this day, May 28th, 1851, freedom fighter Sojourner Truth delivered a speech at the 1851 Women’s Rights Convention in Akron, Ohio that would be counted among the greatest speeches in American history. Known as the “Ain’t I a Woman” speech for the famous and most likely apocryphal line attributed to her. Check out the @thisdaypod about her today. #SojournerTruth #AintIAWoman #BlackHistoryinItsOwnWords (at Bedford–Stuyvesant, Brooklyn) https://www.instagram.com/p/CAv3I4aHbqF/?igshid=98zi1ut40ysg

[cartermagazine]

Today We Honor Sojourner Truth Sojourner Truth was born in 1797 on the Colonel Johannes Hardenbergh estate in Swartekill, a Dutch settlement in upstate New York. She was born to Elizabeth and James Baumfree, also slaves on the Hardenbergh plantation. She spoke only Dutch until she suffered cruel treatment at the hands of a later master, she learned to speak English quickly, but had a Dutch accent for the rest of her life. Her book, The Narrative of Sojourner Truth: A Northern Slave allowed Sojourner to tour and speak to woman across the nation. In 1854, at the Ohio Woman’s Rights Convention in Akron, Ohio, she gave her most famous, “Ain’t I a Woman?” speech : “That man over there says that women need to be helped into carriages, and lifted over ditches, and to have the best place everywhere. Nobody ever helps me into carriages, or over mud puddles, or gives me any best place, and ain’t I a woman? … I have plowed, and planted, and gathered into barns, and no man could head me — and ain’t I a woman? I could work as much and eat as much as a man (when I could get it), and bear the lash as well — and ain’t I a woman? I have borne thirteen children and seen most all sold off to slavery and when I cried out with my mother’s grief, none but Jesus heard me — and ain’t I woman? CARTER™ Magazine carter-mag.com #wherehistoryandhiphopmeet #historyandhiphop365 #cartermagazine #carter #staywoke #sojournertruth #blackhistory #blackhistorymonth #history https://www.instagram.com/p/CXyEo_ILkbY/?utm_medium=tumblr

[whattheysaid]

That man over there says that woman needs to be helped into carriages and lifted over ditches... Nobody ever helps me into carriages, or over mudpuddles or gives me any best place. And a'nt I a woman? Look at my arm! I have ploughed, and planted, and gathered into barns, and no man could head me! And a'nt I a woman? I would work as much and eat as much as a man, when I could get it, and bear the lash as well. And a'nt I a woman? I have borne thirteen children and seen em most all sold off to slavery, and when I cried out with my mother's grief, none but Jesus heard me! And a'nt I a woman?

Sojourner Truth

[pgcclibrary]

𝐒𝐨𝐣𝐨𝐮𝐫𝐧𝐞𝐫 𝐓𝐫𝐮𝐭𝐡 was an African American abolitionist and women's rights activist. She was a slave but escaped to her freedom. She then spent her life working for the rights of other slaves and women.⁣⠀ ⁣⠀ In 1853, she came to realize that although women were some of the most important members of the abolitionist movement, they were not allowed to vote or hold public office. As a black woman, Truth realized that she was doubly discriminated against. Thus, she became an outspoken supporter of women's emancipation and lectured on women's rights and black freedom.⁣⠀ ⁣⠀ ==⁣⠀ ⁣⠀ Source: Sojourner Truth." Historic World Leaders, edited by Anne Commire, Gale, 1994. Gale In Context: Biography⁣⠀ .⁣⠀ .⁣⠀ .⁣⠀ #pgcc #pgcclibrary #womenshistorymonth #sojournertruth (at Prince George's Community College) https://www.instagram.com/p/B9mW74RHtkW/?igshid=1m7am35r1xsp9

[joey-hazell]

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The stars tell our history, and that in turn informs our future. A tribute to the stories of mythic women throughout history. #art #illustration #stars #virgo #constellations #space #animation #motiongraphics #horoscope #shala #persephone #ladyjustice #virginmary #joanofarc #artemisiagentileschi #maryshelley #sojournertruth #susanbanthony #idabwells #marshapjohnson #drblaseyford #metoo #feminist #womenshistory https://www.instagram.com/p/BwU5dyjF0in/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=zwgtupbv6n47

[rememberebonyjanice]

🔮 I manifested this retreat: - I started shifting my language in my work. When I say my work is abt and for black Women: FULL STOP. - I got clear that all I wanna talk abt black women dreaming from a place of ease. This entire retreat was centered around a “Loving This Black Woman” theme. - I opened my heart for community building. I legit went to one place and met all my people. - I’ve been doing intentional healing work in my therapy and with my coach abt the role I play in harming myself and others... this retreat gave space for us to have this conversation in detail. - I have been asking God to teach me how to trust my joy. I met some of the most hilarious, loving, joyFULL black women ever. 🔮 I suspect that we can not go back to being the same. - This is good. - This is very good. 🔮 We spent time creating rituals of everything. - Singing. - Dancing. - Playing. - It must have been strange for the hotel staff to walk in on us every day playing so hard and loving just as hard. Imagine that, a room full of grown black women dancing and singing about their toes and noses or a bus full of grown black women singing #DestinysChild at the top of their lungs (choreography included). 🔮 I’m now available for deepening my commitment to loving black women in even more audacious ways. - One such way is to echo something I heard @raquel_willis say in a small group today, “Can we show images of black trans women living and not just reposting their photos when they are gone. #BlackTransWomen do more than die!” - SHEESH! - Yes. - Selah. 🙏🏾💙 #SojournerTruth #BlackWomen #AllBlackLivesMatter #TheFreePeopleProject (at DoubleTree Resort by Hilton Myrtle Beach Oceanfront) https://www.instagram.com/p/Bxx6PA5hV7x/?igshid=1um6r0qf5udj3

[dadasoulface]

I've been messing with collaging portraits of historical figures. Attempting to catch likeness in that medium can difficult. But I found that drawing my subject a few times helps me with capturing that person's likeness. I did a lot of drawings of John Brown before I started collaging his image. It helped me tremendously in getting his facial features right. With Sojourner Truth, I printed out her portrait then added a few collages elements before I started drawing on the print with oil pastels. I liked the results. Today I will start piecing her portrait together with paper. If I can find the drawings I did of JB I will post them but I think they got lost in the paper shuffle around my work space. Anyways, enjoy your Sunday human beings. . . . . . #artdetail #process #dadasoulface #collage_art #collagist #contemporaryartist #sojournertruth #history #queen #hero #womenrock #drawing #oilpastel #charcoal https://www.instagram.com/p/Bv9eJESlg8h/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=fzpc6fn62dn5

[burninginwaterart]

Carlos Vegas’ portraits in “Correspondences” were inspired by the 17th-century Santas paintings of the Spanish painter Francisco de Zubarán. #carlosvega #portrait #paintings #santas #sojournertruth @jackshainman #correspondences (at Jack Shainman Gallery) https://www.instagram.com/p/BvNM6WDHwqy/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=1dqz7q5c8n9xl