Around 1815 and before she bore the name ST
, she married Thomas, a fellow slave. She had five children between roughly 1815 and 1826, one of whom died in infancy. Her biographer Nell Irvin Painter
Literary responses
Sojourner Truth
Someone at the Anti-Slavery Bugle (perhaps the editor, Marius Robinson
) introduced ST
to its columns by saying that the transcript was not the speech, which was impossible to capture without the sight of the...
Publishing
Sojourner Truth
Frances Dana Gage
, organizer of the women's rights conference at Akron, Ohio, where ST
had delivered her most famous speech, printed her own transcription in the Independent, published in New York.
“Dictionary of Literary Biography online”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Center-LRC.
