![]() ![]() ![]() Emancipation was finalized on July 4, 1827. ![]() 1826) were all fathered by her husband Thomas.Ä«eginning in 1799, New York had begun to legislate the abolition of slavery. Catlin, forbade the relationship Thomas, who died shortly after birth, Peter (1821), Elizabeth (1825), and Sophia (ca. Her first, Diana (1815), was fathered by Robert, her true love from a neighboring farm, whose master, a Mr. Isabella was sold several times in her youth, and married Thomas, picked out by her slave holder John Dumont in Ulster County, New York. She was one of the ten or twelve children born to James and Elizabeth Baumfree, Africans captured from the Gold Coast in modern-day Ghana. African-American abolitionist and women's rights activist Sojourner Truth was born into slavery as Isabella Baumfree in Swartekill, Ulster County, New York. ![]()
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