Interesting facts about sojourner truth
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Sold to John Neely
- I was born a slave to a family of 14 with the name Isabella Baumfree.
- I was sold at an auction for $100 with a flock of sheep to a slave owner named John Neely.
- I was old for $105 to Martinus Schryver of Kingston, NY. Here, I stayed for about 18 months.
- I was sold to John Dumont for $175, and lived in New Paltz, NY for the next 16 years.
- I married another slave on Dumont's property, named Thomas. Over the next few years we will have five children together.
- After John Dumont failed to fulfil his promise to free myself and my family, I escape with my infant daughter, Sophia. I have to leave my other children behind for now, but I will return for them.
- Upon my return to John Dumont's propoerty, I found that my son Peter had been illegally sold to a slave owner in another state. I took the issue to court and secured Peters freedom. I was one of the first black women to challenge a white man in court and win.
- I moved to new york city with my son, Peter.
- I began working as a dom
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1797- Isabella Baumfree (Sojorner Truth) born into slavery on the Hardenbergh estate, Swartekill, Ulster County, New York
1806 - Sold at auction for $100 by John Neely, near Kingston, NY
1808 - Sold for $105 by Martinus Schryver of Kingston, NY, staying there about 18 months.
1810 - Sold for $175 by John Dumont, New Paltz, NY,
1815 - Marries Thomas, a fellow slave. Has five children.
Late 1826 - Isabella escapes to freedomwith infant daughter, Sophia -- she had to leave the other children behind because they were not legally freed in the emancipation order until they had served as bound servants until their twenties.
July 4, 1827 - New York state emancipates slaves born after 1799.
1827-28 - Successfully sues a white man for illegally selling her son Peter out of state.
1829 - Moves to New York City with her son Peter.
1843 - At age 46, Isabella adopts the name Sojourner Truth, leaves New York and travels to Springfield, Mass.
1847 - Works as housekeeper for George Benson, brother-in-law of William Lloyd Garri
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Sojourner Truth
African-American activist (1797–1883)
Sojourner Truth (;[1] 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.[2] Truth was born into slavery in Swartekill, New York, but escaped with her infant daughter to freedom in 1826. After going to court to recover her son in 1828, she became the first black woman to win such a case against a white man.
She gave herself the name Sojourner Truth in 1843 after she became convinced that God had called her to leave the city and go into the countryside "testifying to the hope that was in her."[3] Her best-known speech was delivered extemporaneously, in 1851, at the Ohio Women's Rights Convention in Akron, Ohio. The speech became widely known during the Civil War by the title "Ain't I a Woman?", a variation of the original speech that was published in 1863 as being spoken in a stereotypical Black dialect, then more commonly spoken in the South.[4
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