Klimek: In 1826, Sojourner Truth escaped her enslavement. By this time she was an adult and was a mother to children of her ...
PORT EWEN, N.Y. — Over a hundred people gathered at the Esopus Town Hall in the hamlet on Saturday for the sixth Sojourner ... infant daughter after years of horror and abuse. Truth was forced ...
The facts of Sojourner Truth’s life are inspiring: Born into slavery in the late 1790s, she became an influential abolitionist and Pentecostal preacher, transfixing audiences from the mid 1840s ...