AP African American Studies / Unit 2: Freedom, Enslavement, and Resistance
2.14 Black Organizing in the North: Freedom, Women's Rights, and Education
Notes
Free Black communities in the North built churches, schools, newspapers (Freedom's Journal, 1827), and mutual aid societies. Maria Stewart spoke for Black women's rights; Sojourner Truth linked abolition and women's rights.
Practice
Freedom's Journal was:
1827.
Sojourner Truth is known for:
"Ain't I a Woman?"
Mutual aid societies:
Self-help.
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