I’m doing a short series of portraits of powerful women. The first in the series is Sojourner Truth. I picked her because she was chronologically one of the first women and a woman of color, to fight for women rights and an abolitionist. She was born in slavery but escaped to freedom with her daughter in 1826. After going to court to recover her son in 1828, she became the first black woman to win such a case against a white man. There are an abundance of powerful women like this, Sojourner also has a very recognizable portrait.
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