How was Sojourner Truth treated as a Black woman in America

How is this different from the way that white women were treated in America?

How was Sojourner Truth trying to challenge the gender roles of the 19th century?

 

Sojourner Truth was an African American born in 1797 to slave parents in New York City. As a black woman, she spent about thirty years of her life in slavery. At the age of nine, she was separated from her parents and siblings and sold to John Neely as a slave. John Neely was a very cruel master who beat Truth regularly. He also sold the girl more than two times to other slave masters. At the age of 13,Truth was sold to John Dumont who lived in West Park, New York. In Dumont's home, Truth worked both as a field laborer and a household girl. At this young age, Truth endured sexual harassment and physical abuse. She did not attend school and was later forced to marry another slave against her will.

White women in America had full rights to education, freedom of expression, good jobs and better pay. They enjoyed their freedom and privacy.

After gaining freedom in 1826,Truth became an evangelist ,abolitionist and a women's rights activist. She advocated for equal rights for black women in America. She exhaustively tried to find jobs for black women who had been freed from slavery. She later filed a petition requesting the government to resettle homeless blacks.