Isabella’s father are most high and you may straight, whenever more youthful, and that offered your title away from ‘Bomefree’–low Dutch getting tree–at the least, it is SOJOURNER’s enunciation from it–and also by that it name the guy constantly ran. ‘ She try the mother 
of some ten otherwise several students; even when Sojourner is actually from knowing the particular quantity of her friends and family; she as the youngest, cut that, and all sorts of more than herself being sold prior to their remembrance. She try blessed so you’re able to behold half dozen of them when you’re she stayed a slave.
Those people who are maybe not mothers will draw the findings throughout the promptings of humanity and philanthropy:–these types of, enlightened from the reasoning and you will revelation, also are unerring
Of the two you to definitely instantaneously preceded the woman in the decades, a child of five many years, and you will a woman regarding three, who were offered when she was an infant, she heard much; and she desires that every who does fain accept that servant parents haven’t natural affection due to their little ones may have listened because she performed, when you are Bomefree and you can Mau-mau Bett,–their black cellar lit from the a glaring oak-knot,–would sit for hours, recalling and you may recounting the charming, together with harrowing scenario you to definitely taxed memory you are going to also have, regarding histories ones beloved departed of them, from which that they had started robbed, as well as for whom its hearts however bled.