With the help of Quaker friends she successfully sued her former owner for the return of her son Peter, who had been sold illegally to an Alabama planter. ... speech at the Akron Women's Rights Convention in 1850 has gone down in history as one of the most significant expressions of the combined abolitionist and women's rights movement. ... She was a slave all of her early life and her kindness and loving personality eventually led her out of slavery and into one of the most famous women's rights abolitionists in history. ... I believe Sojourner Truth was an inspiration for othe...

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