Summary Of Ain T I A Woman

In Ain’t I A Woman, Patricia C. McKissack and Fredrick McKissack tell Sojourner Truth’s story, beginning with her birth and childhood. The book then begins going into detail about her as she grows up, her birth name being Isabella to her master, and Bella to her parents. After dealing with her mother and fathers’ death, being sold from one person to another, Isabella is then married to a older slave named Tom, whose first wife was taken away from him and sold. It was a forced marriage, but they loved each other in their own way. A year later, Isabella and Tom had five children when a law was passed requiring the release of slaves born before 1799 and on July 4, 1827, all slaves over the age of twenty-eight. Isabella’s master promised to release her a year early in exchange for her to work even harder, and she accepted graciously. It turns out he lied to her. Isabella flees, taking her youngest daughter and seeks refuge in a Quaker’s house. Continuing the story, McKissack tells of Isabella’s encounters and her adapting the environments she lived in. She takes the reader through a vivid third person story of Sojourner’s life, dreams, and determination.
She changed her name from Isabella to Sojourner Truth once she was a free woman. (Truth, because she only spoke the truth and “the only master [she now had was] God and His name is Truth.) She was a truly steadfast woman, with her intentions in place. She never showed fear, even if she felt it. She was one of the first African American people to have won a lawsuit against a white man. Her passion for justice and equality broke her through to freedom, and she never looked back. Truth continued to preach while traveling, eventually crossing paths with Frederick Douglass. She was a civil rights activist, abolisher, and strove for women’s right- of all colors. Sojourner Truth will forever be a symbol of strength and, of course,