Court Documents Uncover How Sojourner Truth Became the First Black Woman in History to Win Her Son's Freedom – Your Black World
By Victor Omondi The 200-year-old proceedings of abolitionist Sojourner Truth’s quest for the release of her youngest enslaved son, Peter, were discovered buried beneath 5,000 cubic feet of court records at the New York State Archives. Following the abolitionist’s fight against her previous owner and the Albany Supreme Court, archivist, author, and historian James D. […]
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