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Sep 21, 2013 · Esopus’ Sojourner Truth Memorial. Sojourner Truth, who was born a slave, overcame enormous obstacles to become a nationally known speaker and activist for equal rights and justice. To commemorate this remarkable woman, who spent her first 32 years in Ulster County, in 2009 the Town of Esopus Board established the Sojourner Truth ...
Sojourner Truth (/ soʊˈdʒɜːrnər, ˈsoʊdʒɜːrnər /; [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.
African-American abolitionist and women's rights activist Sojourner Truth was born into slavery as Isabella Baumfree in Swartekill, Ulster County, New York.
Apr 3, 2014 · Historians estimate that Truth (born Isabella Baumfree) was likely born around 1797 in the town of Swartekill, in Ulster County, New York.
Sojourner Truth (born c. 1797, Ulster county, New York, U.S.—died November 26, 1883, Battle Creek, Michigan) was an African American evangelist and reformer who applied her religious fervour to the abolitionist and women’s rights movements.
Born into enslavement in 1797 as Isabella Baumfree, Sojourner Truth lived the first years of her life in the Dutch-speaking town of Swartekill in Ulster county, New York. Slaveholders bought and sold her four times. Between 1810 and 1827, starting in her early teens, she had at least five children.
Sojourner Truth was born into slavery as Isabella Baumfree in Ulster County, New York. In 1827, when her master failed to uphold a promise to free her, she escaped, or as she later declared, “I did not run away, I walked away by daylight.”
