Sojourner Truth: A Struggle In Moral Reform

Baumfrees were separated after the death of Charles Hardenbergh in 1806. Sojourner Truth, better known as Isabella, was sold at an auction with a flock of sheep for $100 when she was 9 years old. The man she was sold name was John Neely, she remember him as a harsh and violent person. Over the next two years, Truth would be sold two more times, finally coming to reside on the property of John Dumont at West Park, New York. During these years Truth learned to speak English for the first time.

She moved to New York City, worked as a domestic, became involved in moral reform, embraced evangelical religion, started her street-corner preaching career, and eventually joined a utopian community in Sing Sing, New York. Illiterate and a mystic, Isabella

nevertheless acquired a wide knowledge of the Bible and emerged in the 1840s in Massachusetts, working among the Garrisonian abolitionists. A popular platform figure, she told stories and sang gospel songs that instructed and entertained.

Sojourner Truth put her growing reputation as an abolitionist to work during the American Civil War, she help recruit African American troops for the Union Army. She talked her grandson, James Caldwell, to sign up in the 54th Massachusetts Regiment. In 1864, Truth went to Washington, D.C., to contribute to the National Freedman's Relief Association. On at least one occasion, Truth met and spoke with President Abraham Lincoln about her beliefs and her experience.

All in all, Truth is remembered as one of the powerful leaders of the abolition movement and an early advocate of women's rights. Abolition was one of the few causes that Truth was able to realize in her lifetime. The 19th Amendment to the Constitution, which gave women to vote, did not come in order till 1920, almost forty years after Sojourner Truth's death.

Sojourner Truth was an African-American women's rights activist and abolitionist and the first African American woman to win a court case against a white man. Sojourner is one of the most strongest and brave women Americans has ever known. First, Sojourner life during slavery and embraced evangelical religion and became involved in moral reform and abolitionist work. Next, Sojourner was not educated, but she had a strong powerful voice raised in support of abolitionism. Finally, she helped many African American troops in the Union Army throughout the Civil War.

After the colonel's death, ownership of the Baumfrees passed to his son, Charles. The