Sojourner Truth Interactive Biography - Black History and Women's History - Grades 6-12
By Micah's Learning Resources
This Sojourner Truth interactive biography turns one of the most quoted and most misquoted speeches in American history into a self-guided activity that opens in any browser with no prep, no logins, and no installs. Students follow Isabella Baumfree (c. 1797-1883) from slavery in Dutch-speaking New York through the courtroom where she sued to recover her son, the renaming that made her Sojourner Truth, and a career of speaking for abolition and for women. What Students Explore - Biography: Five illustrated eras covering the childhood in slavery in Dutch New York and the escape, the New York City years and the renaming, Northampton and the Narrative and the Akron speech, the Civil War and the meeting with Lincoln and the work with the freedpeople, and the Battle Creek years and the suffrage campaigns - Timeline: A two-track timeline of 36 events setting Truth's life beside New York's gradual emancipation, the abolition movement, the Civil War and emancipation, and the split in the women's suffrage movement - Map: Eleven places that shaped the story, from Swartekill and Hurley in New York through West Park and the Kingston courthouse, New York City, Northampton and Boston, the 1851 Akron convention, and Battle Creek and Washington - Connections: A 22-node web of the people, works, events and institutions in the story, including Frederick Douglass, William Lloyd Garrison, Harriet Beecher Stowe who publicized her, Abraham Lincoln, the suffrage leaders Lucretia Mott, Elizabeth Cad
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