11/4/2023 0 Comments Old manuscript backgroundThat man over there says that women need to be helped into carriages, and lifted over ditches, and to have the best place everywhere. I think that 'twixt the negroes of the South and the women at the North, all talking about rights, the white men will be in a fix pretty soon. Well, children, where there is so much racket there must be something out of kilter. Women's Rights Convention, Old Stone Church (since demolished), Akron, Ohio Sojourner Truth (1797-1883): Ain't I A Woman? Sojourner Truth died in Battle Creek, Michigan, in 1883. At the 1851 Women’s Rights Convention held in Akron, Ohio, Sojourner Truth delivered what is now recognized as one of the most famous abolitionist and women’s rights speeches in American history, “Ain’t I a Woman?” She continued to speak out for the rights of African Americans and women during and after the Civil War. During this period she became involved in the growing antislavery movement, and by the 1850s she was involved in the woman’s rights movement as well. In 1827, after her master failed to honor his promise to free her or to uphold the New York Anti-Slavery Law of 1827, Isabella ran away, or, as she later informed her master, “I did not run away, I walked away by daylight….” After experiencing a religious conversion, Isabella became an itinerant preacher and in 1843 changed her name to Sojourner Truth. Isabella was instead forced to marry a slave named Thomas, with whom she had five children. Around 1815 she fell in love with a fellow slave named Robert, but they were forced apart by Robert’s master. Like other slaves, she experienced the miseries of being sold and was cruelly beaten and mistreated. Her early childhood was spent on a New York estate owned by a Dutch American named Colonel Johannes Hardenbergh. Carte de Visite, circa 1864, in the collections of the Library of Congress ()īorn into slavery in 1797, Isabella Baumfree, who later changed her name to Sojourner Truth, would become one of the most powerful advocates for human rights in the nineteenth century. Can be used as wallpaper or wrapping paper Vector seamless pattern on the coffee theme with a various coffee symbols, blots and inscriptions on a background of old manuscript in retro style."I sell the shadow to support the substance." - Sojourner Truth. Old manuscript with caravels, wind rose, anchors and other nautical symbols with blots and stains in vintage style Old paper grunge background Vector seamless pattern on the coffee theme with a various coffee symbols, blots and inscriptions on a background of old manuscript in retro style. Can be used as wallpaper or wrapping paper Vector abstract seamless background on the theme of travel, adventure and discovery. Various coffee symbols, dragonfly, blots and inscriptions on a background of old manuscript. Can be used as wallpaper or wrapping paper Old paper grunge background Vector seamless pattern on tea and coffee theme in retro style. Freehand ink outline drawn background sketch in antiquity engraving style Vector menu for Coffee shop with place for price list, a pencil drawing of coffee grinder, dragonfly and handwritten inscriptions on the abstract background of old manuscript with spots in retro style Vector seamless pattern on the coffee theme with a various coffee symbols, blots and inscriptions on a background of old manuscript in retro style. vector illustration Romantic vintage picture of viola, fiddlestick, inkpot, pen, pages with notes, tulips in bowl and burning golden candelabra.
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