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At 9, Truth was sold at a auction along with a flock of sheep. Her owner, John Neely, was very cruel.
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Sojourner Truth is sold again and became property of John Dument who was kind.
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She escapes from her owner with her daughter, Sophia.
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She wins lawsuit to recover her son, peter, who was illegally sold into slavery.
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At age 46, Isabella Baumfree, adopts name Sojourner Truth.
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Sojourner Truth joins the Northhampton Association of Education and Industry. She supported women's right and pacifism.
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Truth's memoirs are published under the title The Narrative of Sojourner Truth: A Northern Slave. William Lloyd wrote the books preface since Truth couldn't read or write at the time.
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Attends the Women's Right Convention in Akron, Ohio. She delivers the famous "Ain't I a Woman" speech.
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She starts to work with other abolitionist, like Frederick Douglas, William Lloyd and more.
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Joins Freedman's Bureau and is asked to travel to Washington D.C to help with the bureau. She meets President Lincoln.
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Travels to Rochester, New York and helps freed slaves. She visits Women's Suffrage Activist, Elizabeth Cady Stanton.
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At age 81, she becomes a delegate of the Women's Right Convention in Rochester, New York.
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On November 26, 1883 Sojourner Truth dies.