Sojourner Truth and the God Who Renames
In 1843, a woman named Isabella Baumfree walked out of New York City with nothing but a pillowcase of belongings and a fierce conviction that...
This is stories & illustrations, drawing on Isaiah 62:1-5.
In 1843, a woman named Isabella Baumfree walked out of New York City with nothing but a pillowcase of belongings and a fierce conviction that the Almighty had given her a new name. Born into slavery in Ulster County, New York, she had endured being sold four times before the age of thirteen. Masters had called her property. Courts had called her nobody.…
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