Mau Mau carried out a common tradition for peoples who could neither read nor write; she told her daughter stories of her older sisters and brothers. In particular, she told Isabella how a five year old boy and his three year old sister were grabbed, loaded into the Hardenbergh carriage, and taken away to other owners. Isabella was too young to know these two, but later in life she encountered the boy in New York City, her sister having died just a few years before the encounter. Isabella remembers receiving beatings from the master, but thought they were probably deserved. Such slave beatings were common even for young children.
Elizabeth 3rd wife
up to 4 other children
Michael
Sophia
Nancy
Hannah
Elizibeth
Diana
Peter
Sojourner Truth - AKA Isabella Van Wagenen
youngest child
.....
"Suggested edit: Betsey was NOT born in 1870. Her daughter Isabella was born in 1797. She may have been born in 1770.
Contributor: Nancy Foye-Cox (47714749)"
Mau Mau carried out a common tradition for peoples who could neither read nor write; she told her daughter stories of her older sisters and brothers. In particular, she told Isabella how a five year old boy and his three year old sister were grabbed, loaded into the Hardenbergh carriage, and taken away to other owners. Isabella was too young to know these two, but later in life she encountered the boy in New York City, her sister having died just a few years before the encounter. Isabella remembers receiving beatings from the master, but thought they were probably deserved. Such slave beatings were common even for young children.
Elizabeth 3rd wife
up to 4 other children
Michael
Sophia
Nancy
Hannah
Elizibeth
Diana
Peter
Sojourner Truth - AKA Isabella Van Wagenen
youngest child
.....
"Suggested edit: Betsey was NOT born in 1870. Her daughter Isabella was born in 1797. She may have been born in 1770.
Contributor: Nancy Foye-Cox (47714749)"
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