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.
Truth started dictating her memoirs to her friend Olive Gilbert, and in 1850 William Lloyd Garrison privately published her book, The Narrative of Sojourner Truth: A Northern Slave. That same year, she purchased a home in what would become the village of Florence in Northampton for $300, and spoke at the first National Women's Rights Convention in Worcester, Massachusetts.