"Sojourner Truth, Fearless Crusader," by Helen Stone Peterson. The book had two hundred and ninety-four pages. I chose this book because people overlook this woman when thinking about African Americans
             who have spread positive ideas. The main character is Isabella, who later renamed herself, Sojourner
             Truth. The book begins while she is only nine years old. In the beginning, she is a naive and scared little girl, but as the book progresses, she becomes a strong and opinionated woman. The other
             characters are the people who help her throughout her life, and those that try and hinder her.
             The book is about Sojourner Truth, and the struggles she faced throughout her life due to her race. It begins with her as a nine-year-old girl who is frightened about being separated from her family and being sold to a new family. By the time she is thirteen, she had been sold five times. Shortly after July 4, 1827, Sojourner escaped her former owner, to begin a life of her own, as a free woman. At the time she was twenty-nine. By leaving her owner, she left her children. To get them back, she placed a formal complaint with a local courthouse, in Kingston, NY. The court appealed in her favor, allowing her son. In 1829, she and her two children moved to New York City, so that her son and daughter could have an education. She lived there for three years. At the beginning of her fourth year, a religious man invited her present employer to come to his communal country estate, so as to worship God.
             While there, Sojourner's employer died, and she was blamed for his death. To prove that she was innocent, she went to former employers, getting letters that praised her highly. Due to this slander of her name, she took her complaint to court, wherein a white jury, she was pronounced not guilty, and awarded a small sum of money. Shortly after this, her son Peter presumably died. Feeling guilty that his
             childhood only consisted of beatings, Sojourner t...