Sojourner Truth

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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. D...