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Isabella (Baumfree) Truth (abt. 1797 - 1883)
Isabella(Sojourner)Truth formerly Baumfree aka Bomefree, Brumfield, Vanwaggener, Van Wagenen
Born about in Ulster County, New York, United States
Daughter of James Baumfree and Betsey Baumfree
[sibling(s) unknown]
Wife of Thomas Dumont— married about 1814 in Ulster County, New York, United States
Descendants Mother of Diana (Dumont) Corbin, Peter Dumont, Elizabeth (Unknown) Boyd and Sophia (Dumont) Schuyler
Died at about age 86in Battle Creek, Calhoun, Michigan, United States
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Sojourner (Baumfree) Truth is Notable.
Sojourner Truth was a former slave who became prominent as an abolitionist and women’s rights activist.
The story of her early life is known from The Narrative of Sojourner Truth, a book originally published in 1850 from an oral account that Sojourner Truth gave to fellow abolitionist Oli