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Sojourner Truth is Born
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Sojourner Truth
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The first time Truth was sold.
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Congress prohibits the African slave trade.
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First U.S. factory able to convert cotton into cloth opens.
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First African Methodist Episcopal Church is formed
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American Colonization Society was established to transport free blacks back to Africa.
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The first high school to offer girls education was just created
Troy Female Seminary -
American Colonization Society founds Liberia as a colony for free blacks from the U.S.
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The first African American newspapers are published, callled Freedom's Journal.
Samuel E. Cornish and John B. Russwurm -
Sojourner Truth is promised freedom, but not granted it.
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Truth escaped and moved to New York City, and worked as a maid.
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the American Anti-Slavery Society is founded in Philidelphia
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First Wagon Train Arrives in California
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Truth started her career as a lecturer and changed her name to Sojourner Truth.
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Harriet Beecher Stowe publishes Uncle Tom's Cabin
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Truth sold her house in Massachusetts and moves to Michigan
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Truth faced down critics who doubted she was a woman so she bared her breasts in one of her lectures.
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Truth wrote her first book on slavery and womens' rights.
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Truth wrote the second edition of her book.
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Truth dies,
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