In 1828 Sojourner Truth became the first Black woman in U.S. history to successfully sue a white man when she regained custody of her son Peter. The boy had been illegally sold and taken to Alabama when he was five years old. The judge ruled, in part, that the “boy be delivered into the hands of his mother—having no other master…but his mother.”
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