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Month: March 2024
Art of the Month
She was born between 1797 and 1883 and given the name Isabella in a Dutch speaking county in New York.
She meets us at the intersection of former slave, abolitionist, women’s rights activists, mother, daughter, wife.
Isabella Baumfree spent the first nine years of her life close to her family. Her father, James Baumfree was captured from Ghana. Her mother Elizabeth was captured from Guinea. She was sold for the first time at the age of nine. She spent the next decade of her life being sold to not very nice people.
She had a husband and five children. Her last master was supposed to free her, but reneged. In late 1826, she escaped with her daughter Sophia.
I did not run off, for I thought that wicked, but I walked off, believing that to be all right.”
She walked to freedom.
This happened because in 1799, the State of New York created laws to abolition slavery which was complete in 1827. Baumfree’s slaver owner refused to let her go, so she left with her youngest child. According to the law the other children would be free when they were in their twenties.
Her former slave owner sold her young son, who was 5 years old, to a slave owner in Alabama. With the help of some others, Baumfree fought for her son in court. She was the first African American to sue her slave owner in court and win.
On June 1, 1843, she changed her name to Sojourner Truth because she felt the Lord calling her to preach the truth.
Affirmation
If courageous was a person, Sojourner Truth would be it. She was born enslaved but spent her life fighting for freedom and truth. She faced hard situations but met them with a type of courage that doesn’t happen often.
She freed herself and young child. She went to court to fight for her son’s freedom. After slavery was over, she fought for equal rights for former slaves and women. She was not deterred by the danger or the pain.
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Art of the Month
She was born between 1797 and 1883 and given the name Isabella in a Dutch speaking county in New York.
She meets us at the intersection of former slave, abolitionist, women’s rights activists, mother, daughter, wife.
Isabella Baumfree spent the first nine years of her life close to her family. Her father, James Baumfree was captured from Ghana. Her mother Elizabeth was captured from Guinea. She was sold for the first time at the age of nine. She spent the next decade of her life being sold to not very nice people.
She had a husband and five children. Her last master was supposed to free her, but reneged. In late 1826, she escaped with her daughter Sophia.
I did not run off, for I thought that wicked, but I walked off, believing that to be all right.”
She walked to freedom.
Affirmation
The word is courageous. It means not deterred by danger or pain, brave
Sometimes we have to look pass the hard things and walk towards it.
Book of the Month
Destiny’s Dilemma
An African American woman moved home to take care of her dying mother giving up the opportunity to experience a world beyond segregation. Zoraida Hughes Williams finds that some things have changed about her hometown of Fort Worth, Texas while some have stayed the same, like Hell’s Half Acre, an area where saloons, prostitution and gambling runs wild. Like most of the residents, she wants to keep her head down and stay away from trouble, but it comes in the unlikely form of an Anglo Baptist preacher. He messes up everything and almost gets them killed.
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Happy Women’s History Month
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