Each Pin is 1.75” tall and 1.25"wide Two-pin back with black rubber clutches Sojourner Truth born Isabella ("Bell") Baumfree; c. 1797 – November 26, 1883, was an African-American abolitionist and women's rights activist. The truth was born into slavery in Swartekill, Ulster County, New York, but escaped with her infant daughter to freedom 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. In 1851, Truth joined George Thompson, an abolitionist, and speaker, on a lecture tour through central and western New York State. In May, she attended the Ohio Women's Rights Convention in Akron, Ohio, where she delivered her famous extemporaneous speech on women's rights, later known as "Ain't I a Woman.