Sojourner Truth - Peter took a job
Time: 1839
Place: Nantucket, Massachusetts, U.S.
Details: In 1839, Truth's son Peter took a job on a whaling ship called the Zone of Nantucket. From 1840 to 1841, she received three letters from him, though in his third letter he told her he had sent five. Peter said he also never received any of her letters. When the ship returned to port in 1842, Peter was not on board and Truth never heard from him again.
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