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They beat her frequently and mocked and punished her for not understanding English. The Neely family was very cruel to Isabella.

Isabella was separated from her parents and sold to a farmer named John Neely.

When Isabella was nine, Charles Hardenbergh died. Many of her siblings were sold away from the family when she was young, a trauma that stayed with her for the rest of her life. Isabella was one of ten or twelve children. When Isabella was five years old, she started to work for her enslaver alongside her mother, learning all of the domestic skills that would make her a valuable enslaved woman when she was grown. John and Elizabeth named their new daughter Isabella.Įsopus was a predominately Dutch area, so Isabella grew up speaking Dutch. Her parents, John and Elizabeth Bomfree, were enslaved by a man named Charles Hardenbergh who lived in Esopus, New York.

Sojourner Truth was born into slavery around the year 1797.