SOJOURNER TRUTH, lecturer, born in Ulster county, New York, about 1775; died in Battle Creek, Michigan, 26 November, 1883. Her parents were owned by Colonel Charles Ardinburgh, of Ulster county, and she was sold at the age of ten to John J. Dumont. Though she was emancipated by the act of New York which set at liberty in 1817 all slaves over the age of forty, she does not appear to have obtained her freedom until 1827, when she escaped and went to New York city. Subsequently she lived in Northampton, Massachusetts, and in 1851 began to lecture in western New York, accompanied by George Thompson, of England, and other Abolitionists, making her headquarters in Rochester, New York. Subsequently she travelled in various parts of the United States, lecturing on politics, temperance, and women's rights, and for the welfare of her race. She could neither read nor write, but, being nearly six feet in height and possessing a deep and powerful voice, she proved an effective lecturer. She carried with her a book that she called "The Book of Life." containing the autographs of many distinguished persons that were identified with the anti-slavery movement. Her name was Isabella, but she called herself "Sojourner," claiming to have heard this name whispered to her from the Lord. She added the appellation of "Truth" to signify that she should preach nothing but truth to all men. She spent much time in Washington, D. C., (luring the civil war, and passed her last years in Battle Creek, Michigan, where a small monument was erected near her grave, by subscription. See "Narrative of Sojourner Truth, drawn from her ' Book of Life, ' with Memorial Chapter," by Mrs. Francis W. Titus (Battle Creek, 1884). SOLANA, Alonso de (so-lah'-nah), Spanish missionary, born in Solana, Toledo, about 1580" died in Nerida, Yucatan, in 1600. He studied in Salamanca, and was graduated in law, but resolved to enter the church, and united with the Franciseans in Toledo. Afterward he retired to the convent of Salceda, but in 1560 he came with Diego Landa (q. v.) to Yucatan, where he soon became active in the conversion of the Maya Indians. He was much loved by the natives, and several times refused dignities that were offered him to remain with his flock. He wrote "Diccionario Maya y Espanol," "Sermones en Lengua Maya," and "Noticias sagradas y profanas de las Antigfiedades y Conversion de los Indios de Yucatan," the manuscripts of which were in the Franciscan convent of Merida, but have been lost.