LIFE IN ANTEBELLUM AMERICA 1807 1861
SLAVERY IN AMERICA COTTON SLAVE TRADE AND THE SOUTHERN RESPONSE
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She helped him escape through the Underground Railroad.
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She did nothing because she was scared.
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She went to court and he was returned to New York.
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All of the above
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Detailed explanation-1: -After the New York Anti-Slavery Law was passed, Dumont illegally sold Isabella’s five-year-old son Peter. With the help of the Van Wagenens, she filed a lawsuit to get him back. Months later, Isabella won her case and regained custody of her son.
Detailed explanation-2: -Meanwhile, her son Peter got into trouble and went to jail a few times, despite Sojourner’s efforts to help him. In 1839, in an effort to straighten out his life, Peter left to work on a whaling ship. Over the next three years she received 3 letter from him.
Detailed explanation-3: -Soon after her escape, Truth sued for the freedom of her five-year-old son Peter, who had been sold illegally under the New York law and transported to Alabama. Truth won the case and secured the return of her son, making her among the first black women to successfully sue a white man in court.
Detailed explanation-4: -A former slave, Sojourner Truth became an outspoken advocate for abolition, temperance, and civil and women’s rights in the nineteenth century. Her Civil War work earned her an invitation to meet President Abraham Lincoln in 1864.