How Sojourner Truth Used Photography to Help End Slavery ... She then sued John Dumont, her former master, for illegally selling her five-year-old son and won her case. Public Domain.

Sojourner Truth, a preacher, ... John Dumont, in 1810. Truth endured years of hardship and recalled suffering daily beatings after being sold to her first master, John Neely, in 1806.

Sojourner Truth, a preacher, ... John Dumont, in 1810. Truth endured years of hardship and recalled suffering daily beatings after being sold to her first master, John Neely, in 1806.

Sojourner Truth is the true mother of community activism on whose shoulders great abolitionists stood and community activists of today stand. ... John Dumont owned Truth from the age of 13; ...

By age 13, she was sold two more times, with her final destination being the home of John and Elizabeth Dumont in West Park, New York. Truth was united with another slave and had five children ...

Truth was born in 1797 in the town of Esopus as Isabella Baumfree and was one of seven slaves owned by Johannes Hardenburgh. She was sold at about age 12 to John Ignatius Dumont, who operated a ...

When the third of her owners, John Dumont, sold Isabella’s five-year-old son (who, there is reason to believe ... Angered, Sojourner Truth ripped open her dress, ...

Google is kicking off Black History Month with a homepage tribute to a woman “who devoted her life to the cause of speaking truth to power.” Who was Sojourner Truth?

Slavery in New York was officially abolished in 1827, but two years before that, Truth’s enslaver at the time — a man named John Dumont — made her an offer: if she worked really hard, he ...

SAN DIEGO, C.A. — Barbara Allen, sixth great-granddaughter of Sojourner Truth, says she’ll never forget the ceremony where the U.S. Navy christened a John Lewis-class oiler the USNS Sojourner… ...