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Sojourner Truth

1797–1883
Sojourner Truth photographed by Randall Studio c. 1870. (National Portrait Gallery; Public domain via Wikimedia Commons)

Major works:
Narrative of Sojourner Truth, a Northern Slave, Emancipated from Bodily Servitude by the State of New York, in 1828 • “Ain’t I a Woman?”

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