Speeches

• Keeping the Thing Going While Things Are Stirring: A speech delivered by Sojourner Truth in 1867
• Sojourner Truth's famous and controversial "Ain't I A Woman?" speech as transcribed by Frances Gage

Biography

• A short biography of Sojourner Truth by the National Women's History Museum
• A complete transcription of Sojourner Truth's memoir and spiritual autobiography, "The Narrative of Sojourner Truth", edited by Olive Gilbert

Other Resources

Sojourner Truth History

• Northampton Association of Education and Industry, a utopian community in Florence, 1842-46
• History of silk industry in Florence, Smith College
• A lovely blog post about Sojourner's life
• Honoring Truth: The Sojourner Statue Story 1992-2012, ed. Rev. Peter Ives, Levellers Press, 2012
• "The River Runs Through Us," interviews by Writer's Voice, a national radio show and podcast, with Nell Irving Painter, Jacqueline Sheehan, and Priscilla Kane Hellweg, all of whom produced books or a play about Sojourner Truth
• On the Trail of Sojourner Truth in Ulster County, NY
• Truth: a folk opera about Sojourner Truth

Background Information

• Abolition, Anti-Slavery Movements, and the Rise of the Sectional Controversy: Library of Congress online exhibit about abolition and anti-slavery movements
• American Women's History: A Research Guide
• Timeline of African American History
• David Ruggles: A Radical Black Abolitionist and the Underground Railroad in New York City: by Graham Russell and Gao Hodges, U. of North Carolina, 2012
• Slavery in the Connecticut Valley of Massachusetts: by Robert H. Romer, published by Levellers Press, 2011
• Mass Vacation: Civil War
• Thomas H. Jones was a fugitive slave and anti-slavery lecturer who lived on Nonotuck Street in Florence from 1854-1859, overlapping with Sojourner Truth for three years.
• Basil Dorsey's history (a freed slave and his house in Florence, MA).
• The Samuel J. May Anti-Slavery Collection at Cornell University

Related Organizations

• Sojourner Truth Park, Port Ewen, NY
• Sojourner Truth Institute of Battle Creek
• Enchanted Circle Theater of Holyoke, MA: produced a play, book and CD about Sojourner's Truth's life
• David Ruggles Center: Ruggles was an influential black abolitionist who lived in Florence the last four years of his life and started a water cure there.
• Historic Northampton
• Pan-African Historical Museum, Springfield, MA
• Mass Humanities Foundation
• Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Committee of Amherst, MA
• Paths Toward Freedom: New York Historical Society's site devoted to the Harriet Tubman home
• North Country Underground Railroad Museum, Ausable Chasm, NY
• Harriet Tubman Underground Railroad Visitor Center, Cambridge, MD
• Harriet Tubman Underground Railroad Byway, self-guided driving tour of Harriet Tubman's path in MD
• Sojourner Truth Statue and Park in Esopus, NY
• Sojourner Truth in Ulster County, NY