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Portrait or photograph of Sojourner Truth: Sojourner Truth

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Sojourner Truth

A Memory Realm virtual memorial place honoring Sojourner Truth, remembered for Abolition, Women's rights, Public speaking.

c. 1797 - 1883Battle Creek, Michigan, United States
Portrait or photograph of Sojourner Truth: Image issue du domaine public (Domaine Public é‰tats-Unis). Source : Norman B. Wood (1897), "White Side of a Black Su
Image issue du domaine public (Domaine Public é‰tats-Unis). Source : Norman B. Wood (1897), "White Side of a Black Subject" , American Publishing, Chicago, Illinois. Téléchargé dep Unknown author Unknown author, see above, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons

Why Sojourner Truth Is Remembered

Sojourner Truth is remembered for abolition, women's rights, public speaking. This public memorial page gives visitors a concise starting point for understanding why the figure remains part of cultural, civic, scientific, or literary memory.

The page is designed as an accessible introduction rather than an exhaustive biography, with source links and image credits kept visible for further reading.

A Virtual Memorial in Memory Realm

This Memory Realm memorial hall turns a map reference into a virtual place for discovery. Visitors can move from the public page to the map and then into a 3D memorial hall connected to Sojourner Truth.

The place is part of Memory Realm's virtual layer. It is not a physical marker and does not claim rights, control, access, endorsement, or affiliation connected to a real-world site.

Place Context

Battle Creek, Michigan, United States is used as a broad spatial reference for this memorial because it is connected to Sojourner Truth's life, work, memory, or public legacy. The location is intentionally city-level or region-level so the page can provide orientation without implying a claim over a specific property or institution.

Historical Context

Sojourner Truth was an American abolitionist and activist for African-American civil rights, women's rights, and alcohol temperance. Truth was born into slavery in Swartekill, New York, but escaped with her infant daughter to freedom in 1826. After going to court to recover her son in 1828, she became the first Black woman to win such a case against a white man.

Memory Realm presents this context for educational discovery and remembrance, with public source links and media attribution preserved alongside the page content.

Photos

Portrait or photograph of Sojourner Truth: Sojourner Truth Mathew Brady Studio Albumen silver print c. 1864 National Portrait Gallery Accession no. NPG.2002.90

Sojourner Truth Mathew Brady Studio Albumen silver print c. 1864 National Portrait Gallery Accession no. NPG.2002.90

Unknown author Unknown author, Unknown source Unknown source, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons

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Portrait or photograph of Sojourner Truth: Sojourner Truth, half-length portrait; hotographic print on carte de visite mount : albumen

Sojourner Truth, half-length portrait; hotographic print on carte de visite mount : albumen

Unknown author Unknown author, This image is available from the United States Library of Congress 's Prints and Photographs division under the digital ID cph.3g06166 . This tag does not indicate the copyright status of the attached work. A normal copyright tag

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Portrait or photograph of Sojourner Truth: Sojourner Truth, albumen silver print , circa 1870

Sojourner Truth, albumen silver print , circa 1870

Randall Studio, National Portrait Gallery , Smithsonian Institution , http://npg.si.edu/object/npg_NPG.78.207, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons

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