er refuge. She is bought as an individual, not as a slave and is granted freedom. At one point, Sojourner sought to reclaim her son. She struggled with the legal system and eventually was successful. Sojourner learns of the multiple beatings to both her son and the brutal murder of her pregnant daughter’s unborn child, then her daughter. “Heavens and Earth, Isabella! Fowler's murdered Cousin Eliza! "Ho," said Isabella, "that's nothing- he liked to kill my child; nothing save him but God.” Sojourner makes direct reference to God, that God can save anyone if belief is entrusted in God. She says that God revealed himself to her, with all the suddenness of a flash of lighting, showing her, "in the twinkling of an eye, that he was all over"- that he pervaded the universe- "and that there was no place where God was not.” She became instantly conscious of her great sin in forgetting her almighty friend and "ever-present help in time of trouble." Realization that God was everywhere and everything around her, with the faith entrusted in him was a possibility. Her philosophy was, "let others say what they will of the efficacy of prayer, I believe in it, and I shall pray Thank God! Yes, I shall always pray," Sojourner started to embrace her spiritual calling, after securing a safe home for her son Sojourner leaves for New York. Sojourner meets Matthias and is taken by his self-proclamation type religion. Sojourner preaches with Matthias for a short while: certain aspect of his theories is contorted to benefit himself, as well as the rest of the male population. Strong spiritual convictions, a deep-rooted motivation, accompanied by a strong belief in God made her change her name. Enslavement would turn into freedom, illiteracy would turn into knowledge, and oppression would be reversed into being a national black leader. Brutal murders would become the backbone of her strongest arguments as an abolitionist in the f...
