Born Isabella in Ulster County, New York, she grew up enslaved in a Dutch-speaking household, saw her family scattered at auction, and walked away to freedom with her infant daughter. Dictated to Olive Gilbert in 1850, her story follows the court battle to recover a son illegally sold south, her years in the Matthias commune, and her call to preach.
The founding document of an American abolitionist and reformer, in her own remembered words. Download the free EPUB.