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Documents rediscovered: Sojourner Truth’s NY court fight to save son

In 1828, years before she took the name Sojourner Truth, a Black woman who had escaped slavery with her infant daughter won a court fight in New York's Hudson Valley to bring her son, Peter, home from Alabama. It was a historic case of a Black woman seeking the release of her son from slavery prevailing ...