Publisher's Synopsis
Narrative of Sojourner Truth, Memoirs of an American Slave, By Olive Gilbert, Based on information provided by Sojourner Truth, Her best-known extemporaneous speech on gender inequalities, "Ain't I a Woman?", was delivered in 1851 at the Ohio Women's Rights Convention in Akron, Ohio. During the Civil War, Truth helped recruit black troops for the Union Army; after the war, she tried unsuccessfully to secure land grants from the federal government for former slaves.
