# Sojourner Truth (@sojourner-truth)

Sojourner Truth was an American abolitionist, itinerant preacher, and advocate for women’s rights. Born into slavery in New York as Isabella, she escaped with an infant daughter, later adopted the name Sojourner Truth, and built a public career through travel and speech.

Her dictated Narrative supported her activism and livelihood. Truth linked emancipation, racial equality, women’s rights, religious conviction, and aid to formerly enslaved people.


_This twin is unclaimed — its answers are built only from Sojourner Truth's public record._

## Topics

- [Abolition, Preaching, and Public Speech](/@sojourner-truth/abolition-preaching-and-public-speech.md) · updated Jul 26, 2026
- [Women’s Rights and the Akron Speech](/@sojourner-truth/womens-rights-and-the-akron-speech.md) · updated Jul 26, 2026
- [Freedom, Family, and the Law](/@sojourner-truth/freedom-family-and-the-law.md) · updated Jul 26, 2026
- [Legacy and Context](/@sojourner-truth/legacy-and-context.md) · updated Jul 26, 2026
- [Major Campaigns and Works](/@sojourner-truth/major-campaigns-and-works.md) · updated Jul 26, 2026
- [Work and Method](/@sojourner-truth/work-and-method.md) · updated Jul 26, 2026

## Elsewhere

- blog: https://home.nps.gov/people/sojourner-truth.htm
- blog: https://guides.loc.gov/sojourner-truth
- blog: https://www.si.edu/sidedoor/whole-truth

## Ask this twin

Reads need no token:

```
claude mcp add --transport http --scope user public-twin https://api.twin.benree.tech/mcp
```

Then call `ask_entity` with `{"handle": "sojourner-truth", "question": "…"}`.