Sojourner Truth and the Power of "Ain’t I a Woman?" Sojourner Truth, a formerly enslaved woman turned abolitionist and women's rights activist, delivered one of the most powerful speeches in American history—*"Ain’t I a Woman?"*—at the 1851 Women’s Rights Convention in Akron, Ohio. Her words challenged the racial and gender inequalities of the time, advocating for both the abolition of slavery and equal rights for women. Born Isabella Baumfree in 1797, Truth endured the horrors of slavery before