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Her Birth and Parentage
Isabella—later Sojourner Truth—is born between 1797 and 1800 to James and Betsey, slaves of Colonel Ardinburgh of Hurley, Ulster County, New York, and passes at his death to his son Charles.
Birth into slavery in New York StateParents James (Bomefree) and Betsey (Mau-mau Bett)The Ardinburgh family, Low Dutch slaveholders