Sojourner means "one who stays temporarily" in English. **Sojourner Truth (c. 1797-1883)** — born Isabella Baumfree, enslaved in New York State — **renamed herself in 1843 after a religious vision instructing her to travel and preach the truth**. **Delivered her *"Ain't I a Woman?"* speech at the 1851 Ohio Women's Rights Convention** — one of the most famous speeches in American history. **First Black woman to win a court case against a white man in the US**, recovering her son from illegal slavery in Alabama in 1828.
Subject of Nell Irvin Painter's *Sojourner Truth: A Life, A Symbol* (1996).
Sojourner reduces to one — the number of Ain't I a Woman.