Sojourner Truth whose birth name was Isabella Baumfree was born a slave in in Esopus New York Though nearly all of her children were sold as slaves she escaped to freedom in with one daughter and lived with a family who paid the money for her freedom Instead of allowing an unjust system to keep her family apart she took legal action to regain her small son Peter mdash an amazing feat for an African-American woman in that day Knowing she couldn rsquo t raise her children without God rsquo s help she became a believer in Christ and later [... more]