In 1826 Sojourner Truth fled from her enslaver John Dumont with her infant daughter and was taken in by an abolitionist family that paid for her work until she became free in 1827. She would take the last name of that family—Van Wagenen—before ultimately taking the name by which she is known today: Sojourner Truth.
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