ABSTRACT
During her lifetime as a staunch upholder of truth and justice, Sojourner Truth, born a slave in 1797 and freed under the 1827 New York State Emancipation Act, often unexpectedly appeared at antislavery and women’s rights rallies. The concept of Womanism can be traced back to Sojourner’s speech that began to develop and highlight Africana women’s unique experience into a paradigm for Africana women. The daily evacuation of males and females from the Africana community in a nine-to-five society has wreaked havoc on the sense of security of Africana children. Sojourner Truth demonstrated early on in the Women’s Rights movement that a commonality exists between the Africana men and women of the South and the women of the North in their struggle for freedom. Ironically, Sojourner was not embracing the Women’s Rights movement; instead she was attacking that element of the Women’s Rights agenda that excluded her.
