Editing Sojourner Truth (section)

==The result of freedom==
The year 1843 was a turning point for her. On June 1, Pentecost Sunday, she changed her name to Sojourner Truth. She chose the name because she heard the Spirit of God calling on her to preach the truth.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.womenshistory.org/education-resources/biographies/sojourner-truth|title=Sojourner Truth|website=National Women's History Museum|language=en|access-date=February 14, 2020}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.pbs.org/thisfarbyfaith/people/sojourner_truth.html|title=This Far by Faith . Sojourner Truth {{!}} PBS|website=www.pbs.org|access-date=February 14, 2020}}</ref> She told her friends: "The Spirit calls me, and I must go", and left to make her way traveling and preaching about the abolition of slavery.<ref>{{cite book |title=Sojourner Truth – A Life, A Symbol |last=Painter |first=Nell Irvin |publisher=W.W. Norton & Company |location=New York |date=1996 |page=[https://archive.org/details/sojournertruthli00pain/page/73 73] |url=https://archive.org/details/sojournertruthli00pain |url-access=registration |access-date=September 14, 2017 |isbn=978-0393027396 }}</ref> Taking along only a few possessions in a pillowcase, she traveled north, working her way up through the [[Connecticut River Valley]], towards Massachusetts.<ref name=":1" />

At that time, Truth began attending [[Millerites|Millerite]] [[Adventism|Adventist]] camp meetings. Millerites followed the teachings of [[William Miller (preacher)|William Miller]] of New York, who preached that Jesus would appear in 1843–1844, bringing about the end of the world. Many in the Millerite community greatly appreciated Truth's preaching and singing, and she drew large crowds when she spoke.<ref>{{Cite encyclopedia|title=Truth, Sojourner (ca. 1797–1883)|date=2017|encyclopedia=Encyclopedia of American Women and Religion|publisher=ABC_CLIO|edition=2nd|isbn=978-1440839870|last=Benowitz|first=June Melby|pages=603–604}}</ref> Like many others [[Great Disappointment|disappointed]] when the anticipated second coming did not arrive, Truth distanced herself from her Millerite friends for a time.<ref name="Cervenak">{{cite journal | url=https://www.scribd.com/doc/300136947/ | title=Gender, Class, And the Performance of a Black (Anti) Enlightenment- Resistances of David Walker and Sojourner Truth | author=Cervenak, Sarah Jane | journal=Palimpsest: A Journal on Women, Gender, and the Black International | year=2012 | volume=1 | issue=1 | pages=68–86 | doi=10.1353/pal.2012.0010| s2cid=142842646 }}</ref><ref name="Painter's Introduction">{{cite journal | url=https://sample-2b258f72266e35a7524e8db86daaeeec.read.overdrive.com/?p=narrative-of-sojourner | title=Introduction: Narrative of Sojourner Truth | author=Painter, Nell Irvin | journal=Narrative of Sojourner Truth | year=1998}}</ref>

In 1844, she joined the [[Northampton Association of Education and Industry]] in [[Florence, Massachusetts]].<ref name=":1" /> Founded by abolitionists, the organization supported [[women's rights]] and [[religious tolerance]] as well as [[pacifism]]. There were, in its four-and-a-half-year history, a total of 240 members, though no more than 120 at any one time.<ref>Clark, Christopher. "The Communitarian Moment: The Radical Challenge of the Northampton Association", Cornell University Press, 1995, p. 2. {{ISBN|0-8014-2730-4}}</ref> They lived on {{convert|470|acres|km2}}, raising livestock, running a [[sawmill]], a [[gristmill]], and a silk factory. Truth lived and worked in the community and oversaw the laundry, supervising both men and women.<ref name=":1" /> While there, Truth met [[William Lloyd Garrison]], [[Frederick Douglass]], and [[David Ruggles]]. Encouraged by the community, Truth delivered her first anti-slavery speech that year.

In 1845, she joined the household of [[George Benson (Quaker)|George Benson]], the brother-in-law of William Lloyd Garrison. In 1846, the Northampton Association of Education and Industry disbanded, unable to support itself.<ref name="WiH" /> In 1849, she visited John Dumont before he moved west.<ref name="Sojourner TruthInstitute" />

Truth started dictating her memoirs to her friend Olive Gilbert and in 1850 William Lloyd Garrison privately published her book, ''The Narrative of Sojourner Truth: a Northern Slave''.<ref name="WiH" /> That same year, she purchased a home in Florence for $300 and spoke at the first [[National Women's Rights Convention]] in Worcester, Massachusetts. In 1854, with proceeds from sales of the narrative and ''[[Carte de visite|cartes-de-visite]]'' captioned, "I sell the shadow to support the substance", she paid off the mortgage held by her friend from the community, Samuel L. Hill.<ref name="Grigsby">{{cite book | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=spckCgAAQBAJ&q=%22I+sell+the+shadow+to+support+the+substance%2C%22&pg=PT186 | title=Enduring Truths: Sojourner's Shadows and Substance | publisher=University of Chicago Press | author=Grigsby, Darcy Grimaldo | year=2015 | location=Chicago | pages=Chapter 5 | isbn=978-0226257389}}</ref><ref name="King">{{cite book | chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=BTjhCgAAQBAJ&q=%22I+sell+the+shadow+to+support+the+substance%2C%22&pg=PA26 | chapter=I am not here|title= Existentialist Thought in African American Literature before 1940 | publisher=Lexington Books |first= Jeannine |last= King |editor-first= Melvin |editor-last= Hill | year=2015 | page=26 | isbn=978-1498514811}}</ref><ref name=":1" />