Belle “Sojourner Truth” Baumfree — [ Poem ] — December 13th, 2020 — Robert Bayer — (7 pages)

Belle “Sojourner Truth” Baumfree, Sworn Enemy of Slavery; Born into that, 1797, sold 4 times, brutally beaten 7,523. Worked like a man, treated like a mule, escaped with child, 1826 A.D. “And ain’t I a woman? Six feet tall! Look at my arms, look at me.” “I have plowed, and planted, and gathered in the barns, and no man can head me.” “And ain’t I a woman? I have borne 13 children and seen most all sold off to slavery.”

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Belle “Sojourner Truth” Baumfree — [ Poem ] — December 13th, 2020 — Robert Bayer — (7 pages)

Published on Dec 13, 2020

Robert Bayer

Belle “Sojourner Truth” Baumfree, Sworn Enemy of Slavery; Born into that, 1797, sold 4 times, brutally beaten 7,523. Worked like a man, treated like a mule, escaped with child, 1826 A.D. “And ain’t I a woman? Six feet tall! Look at my arms, look at me.” “I have plowed, and planted, and gathered in the barns, and no man can head me.” “And ain’t I a woman? I have borne 13 children and seen most all sold off to slavery.” “And when I cried out with my mother’s grief none but Jesus heard me.” Born again at religious revivals, a charismatic preacher, Sojourner Truth came to be. Shouted out, sang out — about the evils of American society: Abolition, Prohibition, Segregation, a Suffragette threshing justice tirelessly, With the likes of W.L. Garrison, F. Douglass, E.C. Stanton and S.B. Anthony. Moved to Harmonia, Michigan, a Spiritualist Utopia of Nature’s Beauty, Then raised the countryside for The 1st Michigan Colored Regiment— relentlessly, Valiant Soldiers who can shoot a rebel farther than a white man ever saw—