Those are the same stars, and that is the same moon, that look down upon your brothers and sisters, and which they see as they look up to them, though they are ever so far away from us, and each other.

She suffered many hardships at the hands of Neely whom Sojourner Truth later described as cruel and harsh and who once beat her with a bundle of rods. Elizabeth Baumfree also known as Mau-Mau Bett or Betsy to children who knew her was the daughter of enslaved Africans from the Coast of Guinea. Truth was born into slavery in Swartekill Ulster County New York but escaped with her infant daughter to freedom in 1826.

Truth was born into slavery in Swartekill Ulster County New York but escaped with her infant daughter to freedom in 1826. : /soʊˈdʒɜrnər ˈtruːθ/; c. Sojourner Truth (pron.