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Sojourner Truth
Born enslaved, she freed herself, then walked the country preaching freedom and the rights of women.
“I never learned my letters, so I dictated my life to a friend and sold the book to pay for my house in Northampton.”
Sojourner Truth
in correspondence
One continuous correspondence, not a letter service: Sojourner remembers every letter you exchange, and each reply builds on everything that came before. Your letters shape where the conversation goes.
Begin your correspondence with Sojourner →Five letters, $39, free shipping. The first letter usually arrives in 7 to 10 days.
Who you will be writing to
Sojourner Truth was born enslaved in New York around 1797, speaking Dutch before English. She walked to freedom carrying her infant daughter, then went to court to recover her son, and won. In 1843 she took a new name and began preaching plain truth across the country.
She never learned to read or write, and it never once slowed her down; she dictated her book and her letters and outspoke educated men on any platform. Her letters here have that voice: unhurried, biblical, utterly unafraid.
What the letters hold
- Freedom, taken and defended
- Faith as daily conversation
- Speaking plainly to power
- A mother's long fights
- Wit that disarms a hostile room
Questions about writing with Sojourner
What are letters from Sojourner Truth like?↓
Direct, warm, and cadenced like speech, because speech was her instrument. They are creative works in her voice, drawn from her documented life.
Could she really not read or write?↓
Correct. Her real letters and her book were dictated to friends, and this correspondence honors that spoken voice, set down the way she gave it.
Ready to write with Sojourner?
Sojourner Truth will write back in their own hand, on real paper, mailed to your door. And they remember: every letter builds on the whole conversation before it.
Begin your correspondence with SojournerFive letters, $39, free shipping. The first letter usually arrives in 7 to 10 days.
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