During the 1850s, Truth moved to Battle Creek, Michigan. At the outset of the American Civil War, Truth collected supplies for black volunteer regiments; in 1864, she traveled to Washington, D.C., where she worked to integrate streetcars (she was received at the White House by President Abraham Lincoln) (Sojourner Truth 4). Also in 1864, Truth accepted an appointment to the National Freedmen's Relief Association with responsibilities for counseling former slaves, particularly concerning resettlement issues; in fact, as late as the 1870s, Truth encouraged the migration of freedmen to Kansas and Missouri. Finally, in 1875, Truth retired to her home in Battle Creek, where she lived until her death in 1883 (Sojourner Truth 5).
Impact of Sojourner Truth's Life on American Society. In his book, Speaking Truth to Power: Essays on Race, Resistance, and Radicalism, Manning Marable (1996) reports that, "Part of the historic strengths of the Black Freedom Movement were the deep connections between political objectives and ethical prerogatives. This connection gave the rhetoric of Frederick Douglass, Sojourner Truth, W.E.B. Du Bois, Paul Robeson, and Fannie Lou Hamer a clear vision of the moral ground that was simultaneously particular and universal" (98). According to Fitch and Mandizuk, Truth dedicated her life to supporting three major causes and several minor causes, and used her enormous oratorical abilities to this end. "The first major cause was the abolition of slavery," they say. "Using her own personal slave narrative, Truth argued that the enslaved black people should be free in a nation dedicated to freedom" (3).
Truth also used her personal example as a woman who worked as hard as any man in the fields in support of her second major life cause, woman's rights. The third major cause to which Truth dedicated her life was her failed attempt to relocate the contraband and eventually the freed slaves out of the cities of the East to western lands, where...
Through luck and hard work, Douglass was able to gain something of an education, but his experience, like his release from bondage before Emancipation, he stated was hardly the norm. Equality and freedom needed to be extended to all Black Americans. Sojourner Truth's speech "Ain't I a Woman?" chronicles the seemingly endless catalogue of hardships she endured as a female slave, without any self-pity. Although a member of the supposedly
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