The inventory for Charles Hardenbergh's estate, lists a "Negro Wench," named Isabella, who would later be known as Sojourner Truth the renowned abolitionist and activist, listed at an assessed value of one-hundred pounds. Born Isabella, the ninth child of slaves Betsy and James in Hurley, New York, Sojourner took on her new name at the age of 46. Born into subjugation, Sojourner Truth came from meager beginnings. After an abolishionist couple in Rifton, New York, the Van Wagener's, gave her freedom, she became one of the nation's most vocal anti-slavery lecturers and remains a symbol for equality and women's rights to this day.




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