{"id":1373,"date":"2023-07-07T18:16:49","date_gmt":"2023-07-07T18:16:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/embed.la.utexas.edu\/his-315k-external\/?p=1373"},"modified":"2023-07-12T18:26:44","modified_gmt":"2023-07-12T18:26:44","slug":"age-of-reform-activity-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/embed.la.utexas.edu\/his-315k-external\/age-of-reform-activity-1\/","title":{"rendered":"Age of Reform: Activity 1"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-cover is-light\" style=\"min-height:181px;aspect-ratio:unset;\"><span aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-cover__background has-background-dim\" style=\"background-color:#bf5700\"><\/span><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1100\" height=\"223\" class=\"wp-block-cover__image-background wp-image-1374\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/embed.la.utexas.edu\/his-315k-external\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2023\/07\/module-11.jpeg\" data-object-fit=\"cover\" srcset=\"https:\/\/embed.la.utexas.edu\/his-315k-external\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2023\/07\/module-11.jpeg 1100w, https:\/\/embed.la.utexas.edu\/his-315k-external\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2023\/07\/module-11-300x61.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/embed.la.utexas.edu\/his-315k-external\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2023\/07\/module-11-1024x208.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/embed.la.utexas.edu\/his-315k-external\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2023\/07\/module-11-768x156.jpeg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1100px) 100vw, 1100px\" \/><div class=\"wp-block-cover__inner-container is-layout-flow wp-block-cover-is-layout-flow\">\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center has-white-color has-text-color has-large-font-size\">Introduction<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:24px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-video\"><video height=\"360\" style=\"aspect-ratio: 640 \/ 360;\" width=\"640\" controls src=\"https:\/\/embed.la.utexas.edu\/his-315k-external\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2023\/07\/Module-10-Age-of-Reform.mp4\"><track src=\"https:\/\/embed.la.utexas.edu\/his-315k-external\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2023\/07\/Module-10-Age-of-Reform.vtt\" srclang=\"English\" \/><\/video><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\" \/>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image alignleft size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"100\" height=\"80\" src=\"https:\/\/embed.la.utexas.edu\/his-315k-external\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2023\/06\/headlines.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-686\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading has-text-align-center has-white-color has-text-color has-background\" style=\"background-color:#333f48\">History as it Happened<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading has-text-color\" style=\"color:#bf5700\">Sojourner Truth, \u201cAnd a\u2019n\u2019t I a woman?\u201d<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>She called herself Sojourner Truth. She was born into slavery around 1797 in New York State\u2019s Hudson River Valley, eighty miles from New York City. As a slave, she was known simply as \u201cIsabella.\u201d But a decade and a half after escaping from bondage, she became a legend in the struggle to abolish slavery and extend equal rights to women.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The youngest of some ten or twelve children, she grew up in a single room in a dark and damp cellar, sleeping on straw on top of loose boards. For sixteen years, from 1810 to 1826, she served as a household slave in upstate New York, and was sold five times. One owner beat her so savagely that her arms and shoulders bore scars for the rest of her life. She bore a fellow slave five children, only to see at least three of her offspring sold away. In 1826, just a year before slavery was finally abolished in the state, she fled after her owner broke a promise to free her and her husband. She took refuge with a farm family that later bought her freedom.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image alignright size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/embed.la.utexas.edu\/his-315k-external\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2023\/07\/Truth-653x1024.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1377\" width=\"317\" height=\"497\" srcset=\"https:\/\/embed.la.utexas.edu\/his-315k-external\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2023\/07\/Truth-653x1024.jpeg 653w, https:\/\/embed.la.utexas.edu\/his-315k-external\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2023\/07\/Truth-191x300.jpeg 191w, https:\/\/embed.la.utexas.edu\/his-315k-external\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2023\/07\/Truth-768x1204.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/embed.la.utexas.edu\/his-315k-external\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2023\/07\/Truth.jpeg 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 317px) 100vw, 317px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Sojourner Truth, c. 1864.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Isabella then moved to New York City, carrying only a bag of clothing and twenty-five cents. There she supported herself as a domestic servant. It was a period of intense religious excitement, and although she lacked formal schooling, Isabella began to preach at camp meetings and on street corners.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In 1843, Isabella took on the name Sojourner Truth, convinced that God had called on her to wander the country and boldly speak out the truth. Her fame as a preacher, singer, and orator for abolition and women\u2019s rights spread quickly and three incidents became the stuff of legend.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>During the late 1840s, when the black abolitionist, Frederick Douglass, expressed doubt about the possibility of ending slavery peacefully, she replied forcefully: \u201cFrederick, is God dead?\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Several years later in 1851, during a speech before a woman\u2019s rights convention in Akron, Ohio, she demanded that Americans recognize that impoverished African American women were women too, reportedly saying: \u201cI could work as much and eat as much as a man\u2014when I could get it\u2014and bear de lash as well! And a\u2019n\u2019t I a woman?\u201dAnd in 1858, when a hostile audience insisted that the six-foot tall orator spoke too powerfully to be a woman, she reportedly bared her breasts before them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>During the Civil War, she took an active role promoting the Union cause, collecting food and supplies for black troops, and struggling to make emancipation a war aim. When the war was over, she traveled across the North, collecting signatures on petitions calling on Congress to set aside western land for former slaves. At her death in 1883, she could rightly be remembered as one of the nation\u2019s most eloquent opponents of discrimination in all forms.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The decades before the Civil War saw the birth of the American reform tradition. Reformers launched unprecedented campaigns to educate the deaf and the blind, to rehabilitate criminals, to extend equal rights to women, and to abolish slavery. Our modern systems of free public schools, prisons, and hospitals for the infirm and the mentally ill are all legacies of this first generation of American reform.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>History as it Happened Sojourner Truth, \u201cAnd a\u2019n\u2019t I a woman?\u201d She called herself Sojourner Truth. She was born into slavery around 1797 in New York State\u2019s Hudson River Valley, eighty miles from New York City. 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