His acquittal was complete, his friendship warmly honoured, a lively interest excited for his friend, and his description of the fine country about Lyme so feelingly attended to by the party, that an earnest desire to see Lyme themselves, and a project for going thither was the consequence.
Battle Creek, Michigan. Photos by Kim Russell. Statue created by Tina Allen in 1999 and is located in the Memorial Park in Battle Creek. She is a 12 foot tall bronze piece in the town where she spent the last 26 years of her life â from 1857 to Nov. 26, 1883. Sojourner Truth is buried in the Oak Hill Cemetery, Battle Creek, Michigan. More on this Battle Creek Project.
Sojourner Truth (/soÊËdÊÉrnÉr ËtruËÎ¸/ ; born Isabella (Bell) Baumfree; 1797 â November 26, 1883) was an African-American abolitionist and women's rights activist. Truth was born into slavery in Swartekill, Ulster County, New York, but escaped with her infant daughter to freedom in 1826. After going to court to recover her son, in 1828 she became the first black woman to win such a case against a white man. She gave herself the name Sojourner Truth in 1843. Her best-known speech was delivered extemporaneously, in 1851, at the Ohio Women's Rights Convention in Akron, Ohio.