How did Sojourner Truth win her son back?

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Sojourner Truth went to court and successfully sued for her son's custody in 1828 under the New York Anti-Slavery Law. She argued that her son, Peter, was being kept in servitude illegally, as he should have been freed after a certain age in accordance with state law.

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