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Sojourner Truth

1797 - 1883

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Sojourner Truth (; born Isabella Baumfree; c. 1797 – November 26, 1883) was an American abolitionist and activist for African-American civil rights, women's rights, and alcohol temperance. Truth was born into slavery in Swartekill, New York, but escaped with her infant daughter to freedom in 1826. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Sojourner Truth has received more than 5,191,916 page views. Her biography is available in 62 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 58 in 2019). Sojourner Truth is the 173rd most popular social activist (up from 205th in 2019), the 1,590th most popular biography from United States (up from 2,122nd in 2019) and the 19th most popular American Social Activist.

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  • 62

    Languages Editions (L)

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  • 6.10

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among SOCIAL ACTIVISTS

Among social activists, Sojourner Truth ranks 173 out of 840. Before her are René Just Haüy, Kittur Chennamma, Al-Shaykh Al-Mufid, Vladimir Bukovsky, Emilie Schindler, and Ilya Ulyanov. After her are Chico Mendes, Judas of Galilee, Billy Milligan, Grigory Mikhaylovich Semyonov, Emmett Till, and Yelena Bonner.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1797, Sojourner Truth ranks 22. Before her are Paul Delaroche, Utagawa Kuniyoshi, Ferdinand von Wrangel, Maria Isabel of Braganza, Princess Henrietta of Nassau-Weilburg, and Carlo Blasis. After her are Ida Laura Pfeiffer, Duchess Maria Dorothea of Württemberg, Manuela Sáenz, Giuditta Pasta, Carl Gustaf Mosander, and Prince Frederick of the Netherlands. Among people deceased in 1883, Sojourner Truth ranks 17. Before her are Charles II, Duke of Parma, Thomas Mayne Reid, Frederick Francis II, Grand Duke of Mecklenburg-Schwerin, Dayananda Saraswati, Eva Gonzalès, and Pertevniyal Sultan. After her are Prince Charles of Prussia, Ranavalona II, Tự Đức, Alexander Gorchakov, Édouard Roche, and Friedrich von Flotow.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Sojourner Truth ranks 1,590 out of 20,380. Before her are John Robert Schrieffer (1931), Asa Griggs Candler (1851), Brad Dourif (1950), Stan Smith (1946), Ma Barker (1873), and Anthony Bourdain (1956). After her are Henry L. Stimson (1867), Barbara Bach (1947), Marilyn Manson (1969), Louise Brooks (1906), Jeffrey DeMunn (1947), and Conrad Hilton (1887).

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Among SOCIAL ACTIVISTS In United States

Among social activists born in United States, Sojourner Truth ranks 19. Before her are Bugsy Siegel (1906), Nat Turner (1800), Betty Ford (1918), George Stinney (1929), John Brown (1800), and Frederick Douglass (1818). After her are Billy Milligan (1955), Emmett Till (1941), Edward Snowden (1983), Fred Phelps (1929), Margaret Sanger (1879), and Gloria Steinem (1934).

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