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The Cause of Her Leaving the City
Her savings lost in Pierson's common fund, Isabella concludes 'the rich rob the poor, and the poor rob one another,' tells Mrs. Whiting her name is no longer Isabella but SOJOURNER, and walks out of New York on June 1, 1843, with a pillow-case of clothes.
The lost savings and the kingdom's wreck'The rich rob the poor, and the poor rob one another'Taking the name SojournerLeaving the city, June 1843