husband. Sojourner loss one of her children under false pretences, which was a regular practice in the slavery period. Sojourner is led to believe her son is at another family which is close to her. Sojourner escapes from her masters home, taking refuge close by. After being lied too by her master; that she would be freed in the year of 1826. Sojourner leaves in the year of 1827. Sojourner is bought by Mr. Issac's S.Van Wagener who gives her refuge, she is bought as an individual, not as a slave and is granted freedom. While residing with Mr. Wagener, Sojourner seeks legal course to reclaim her son. After continuously struggling with the legal system Sojourner is successful in her endeavour. The treatment of her son is discovered once he is returned to her, Sojourner learns of multiple beatings to both her son and the brutal murder of her pregnant daughters unborn child. Then of the murder of 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. 5 Sojourner makes direct reference to God, that God can save anyone if belief is entrusted in God. But, ere she reached the vehicle, 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." All her unfilled promises arose before her. Realization that God was everywhere and everything around her, with the faith entrusted in him was a possibility. Her language is, "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," 6 Sojourner started to embrace her spiritual calling, after securing a safe home for her son So...
