A ground-breaking biography of a former slave, abolitionist, and women’s rights activist.This generously sized and readable edition includes two versions of Truth’s famous “Ain’t I a Woman?” speech.Sojourner Truth (1795-1883), born as “Isabella” and a Dutch-speaking slave in New York, was one of the nineteenth century’s most important voices on anti-slavery and women’s rights.Although she could not read or write, Sojourner Truth dictated this compelling autobiography which narrates the story of her life as a slave and as an emancipated black woman, preacher, and orator in the early to mid-nineteenth century.In 1828, Truth made legal history by becoming the first Black woman to win a legal case against a white man to gain her son’s freedom, one of many remarkable events that shaped her life and which are documented in this narrative. Two versions of her famous “Ain’t I a Woman?” speech, addressed without preparation to the Woman’s Rights Convention in Akron, Ohio, in 1851, are included.