Sojourner Truth
1797–1883* · Person
Born enslaved, she became a towering abolitionist and women's-rights orator — 'Ain't I a Woman?'
On these timelines: Women in history, USA, People, Master
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Around 1797
- Presidency of George Washington (1789)
- French Revolution (1789)
- Industrial Revolution (1760)
- Great Famine of Ireland (1845)
- American Declaration of Independence (1776)
- Industrial Revolution begins (1760)
- Industrial Revolution ends (1840)
- American Revolution (1775)
- American Revolutionary War (1775)
- Napoleon Bonaparte (1769)