February 15, 2007
Black History Month Hidden History II:
Sojourner Truth
By Stan Dyer
Even in a world of wealth, opportunity, and abundance, it is a remarkable thing to achieve notoriety and success on the level of celebrity. When a person is born a woman, black and a slave in 18th century America, it is truly amazing. Yet, history records a number of people who conquered such odds and one of them was Sojourner Truth.
We do not often think of the state of New York as a slave state, but, in the 18th century, only Charleston had a slave population greater than New York City. Sojourner Truth was born Isabella Baumfree in 1797 to “James†and “Betseyâ€, the chattel property of “Colonel Ardinburghâ€. By virtue of her birth, she, too View the rest of this article
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