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Sojourner Truth

She lived on the farm up until a few months before New York abolished slavery. Since Dumont had promised her, her freedom a year before the state emancipation and broken it she took her infant son and ran away. .
             Truth had then been brought from Dumont and then given freedom by the Van Wagenen's. It was then that she said she was directly talking to God and could continue to. In 1828 she was determined to get her illegally sold son back that had been sold to a plantation in Alabama. The new law was that it was illegal to sell a slave outside of the state and any minor under the age of twenty-one was to be free. At first she did not know that he was sold until some months after. Her son was only five and he was sold to a man named Gedney that had plans on taking him to England. On Gedney's way when he was in New York Gedney found him to small for his services and gave him to his brother and then the boy ended up in Alabama. Truth traveled by foot and alone to find the man who broke the law. The Dumonts were asked to send her child back to her, but she was laughed at since Mrs. Dumont told her she could barely take care of herself how was she going to take care of her son. Truth answer to her was that god is batter than any home that she could give him and he would take care of her and her son. (Truth, ch.16) After she did not receive her son she chose to take her request to a higher ground. Truth wanted to do something about it because she knew that she could win and she was determined to win so with the help of a lawyer she took the man to court and became the first women to take a white man to court and win (glassceiling.com). Truth changed the way that court trials would be won for the rest of history to come.
             Truth then moved to New York with her son and lived with Mr. Pierson the man who ran the African Church who later became a prophet. Mr. Pierson was a very strong believer and he said one day that no true Christian shaves his beard o from that day on he traveled to show people his beard.


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