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Real or fake? Sojourner fact selected her personal identify. precise! while Sojourner fact made up our minds to alter her lifestyles to develop into a touring preacher, she replaced her identify. A freed slave, she sought after her new identify to explain her new task.

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After that, slavery was outlawed everywhere in the United States. Sojourner was thrilled. But she knew that African American families needed a lot more help to make a new start in life. Millions of newly freed African Americans like this group had a lot to learn about freedom. Sojourner was ready to help them. 37 5 FIGHTING ON A fter the war, Sojourner worked hard to find jobs for freed slaves. She matched black men and women with northerners who needed good workers. Sometimes she used her own money to pay for the workers’ train tickets to the North.

New York: Katherine Tegen Books/Amistad, 2005. Discover the true story of a skillful group of black soldiers and their black leader fighting for the North during the Civil War. Landau, Elaine. The Abolitionist Movement. New York: Children’s Press, 2004. Landau presents a history of the fight to outlaw slavery throughout the United States. McPherson, Stephanie Sammartino. Susan B. Anthony. Minneapolis: Lerner Publications Company, 2006. This is a biography of the famous women’s rights leader and her fight to give women the vote.

By this time, her children were free adults. Sojourner invited them to come live with her. 28 Around that same time, Sojourner began speaking at abolitionist meetings. There, people talked about how to end slavery in the South. Sojourner used her skills as a preacher to catch the crowd’s attention. Often, she spoke about her life as a slave. Her words brought people to tears. She inspired them to keep fighting for black people’s freedom. Sojourner also spoke at many women’s rights gatherings. She gave one of her most famous speeches in 1851.

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