Sojourner Truth was born Isabella Bornfree - a slave in Dutch speaking Ulster County, New York.
A former slave, bought and sold 4 times, became an outspoken advocate for temperance, civil and women’s rights in the nineteenth century.
She ran away with her infant daughter Sophia. The abolitionist family, the Van Wageners, bought her freedom for $20 in 1827 - the year before New York’s law freeing slaves took effect.
During the American civil war she played a major role in recruiting African-American soldiers to fight for the Union ( northern states) against the Confederacy (southern states)
Her work earned her an invitation to meet President Abraham Lincoln in 1864.
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