On 1815 she fell in love with an enslaved man named Robert and had a daughter named Diana.
Truth found out that her 5 year old son had been illegally sold to a man in Alabama. Later then she went into court, and she was the first black woman to successfully challenge a white man in a U.S court. 
On 1850, Truth published her life story in a book called "The Narrative of Sojourner Truth: A Northern Slave."