Truth moved to New York City in 1828, where she worked for a local minister. The family bought her freedom for twenty dollars and helped Truth successfully sue for the return of her five-year-old-son Peter, who was illegally sold into slavery in Alabama. In 1827-a year before New York’s law freeing slaves was to take effect-Truth ran away with her infant Sophia to a nearby abolitionist family, the Van Wageners. In her teens, she was united with another slave with whom she had five children, beginning in 1815. She was bought and sold four times, and subjected to harsh physical labor and violent punishments. Truth was born Isabella Bomfree, a slave in Dutch-speaking Ulster County, New York in 1797.
Her Civil War work earned her an invitation to meet President Abraham Lincoln in 1864.
A former slave, Sojourner Truth became an outspoken advocate for abolition, temperance, and civil and women’s rights in the nineteenth century.
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