Sojourner Truth

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double bondage as an African American and a woman in a society dominated by whites and men. Female slaves, for example, often did both men's and women's work. One master boasted of Isabella that she was "better to me than a man -- for she will do a good family's washing in the night, and be ready in the morning to go into the field, where she will do as much at raking and binding as my best hands." Once she gained her freedom, Truth labored as a domestic servant but remained poor, as related in her Narrative: "she toiled hard, working early and late, doing a great deal for a little money, and turning her hand to almost any thing that promised good pay. Still, she could not prosper." 's honest poverty in New York City was similar to that experienced by the majority of free blacks in the antebellum North.
Truth might have faded into obscurity as an illiterate and anonymous black woman, but she had a knack for pursuing a cause until it became a cause c‚lebrŠ. For example, in ...

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