Making a Difference Introduction

For my project, I chose to pick Sojourner Truth. When I was looking for a person to choose for this project I was having some trouble. I didn’t want to pick someone really obvious, because that would not be very interesting. I wanted to find someone who was relatively unknown, but at the same time did indeed make a great difference in the world. When searching for people, I came across the name Sojourner Truth. I started looking it up because I thought that it was a really odd and interesting name. When I started researching her though, I realized that she really did do a lot more than I was expecting. I decided to pick her because she was a black woman living in the nineteenth century, a time period where both blacks and women were looked down upon. This leads to my thesis, which is that Sojourner Truth made a difference in the world through the obstacles that she had to overcome in her life and her work as an abolitionist and a women’s rights activist. My thesis basically states that Sojourner Truth made such a big difference because she worked as an abolitionist and a women’s rights activist, but also because she had to overcome the obstacles of escaping slavery and living in a society where both blacks and women were viewed as inferior. Overall, I think my research into Sojourner Truth has made me realize that there are many people in history who make a difference that can go unnoticed.