In it, she tells of her early life in slavery and how she did not officially achieve freedom until 1827, under New York State's Anti- Slavery Act. This work includes several important texts about her life, beginning with a dictated autobiography. Sojourner Truth (1795-1883) was originally a Dutch-speaking slave in Hurley, New York (Ulster County) who became one of the nineteenth century's most eloquent voices for the causes of anti-slavery and women's rights. Sojourner Truth's narrative and Book of life Narrative of Sojourner Truth a bondswoman of olden time, emancipated by the New York Legislature in the early part of the present century with a history of her labors and correspondence drawn from her "Book of life.".
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