Real name: Isabella Baumfree- youngest of the 12 children born into slavery in Ulster County, New York spoke low Dutch and owned by Colonel Charles Hardenbergh
Fell in love with a fellow slave- Robert. Had a daughter Diana. He was beaten up and they never saw each other again.
Married a fellow slave: Thomas. Four kids- Peter, Elizabeth, Sophia, and a child who may have died in infancy
After slave owners died, she was sold 3 more times and then was finally able to learn English walked away from slavery in 1826 with daughter Sophia freed her son from slavery by taking his case to court converted to Christianity worked as a housekeeper when she first arrived in New York in Elijah Pierson’s home went to a different house to work and her old owner
