Women in abolition

Isabella Baumfree, a slave for the first 30 years of her life, took the name Sojourner Truth when she decided to sojourn throughout the country preaching, and later, arguing for abolition. At a women’s rights convention in 1851, the tall, muscular black woman were mad at in disapproval. Because Truth supported abolition, some participants feared her speaking would make their own cause less popular. Truth won applause with her speech that urged men to grant women their rights.