![]() Truth moved to New York City, where she became devoutly religious and renamed herself Sojourner Truth, claiming that the Holy Spirit had encouraged her to always preach the truth. The family bought Truth and two of her children out of slavery. In 1827, she and her infant daughter fled slavery and took shelter with an abolitionist family who lived nearby. She was raised in a Dutch-speaking town in Ulster County, New York, and she had the first of her five children (not 13, as some sources claim), in 1815. ![]() ![]() Sojourner Truth was born into slavery in 1797 as Isabella Baumfree (sometimes spelled “Bomfree”). ![]()
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