Read this excerpt from narrative of sojourner truth. which phrase describes a person-versus-society external conflict? a little previous to isabel's leaving her old master, he had sold her child, a boy of five years, to a dr. gedney, who took him with him as far as new york city, on his way to england; but finding the boy too small for his service, he sent him back to his brother, solomon gedney. this man disposed of him to his sister's husband, a wealthy planter, by the name of fowler, who took him to his own home in atlanta. this illegal and fraudulent transaction had been perpetrated some months before isabella knew of it, as she was now living at mr. van wagener's. the law expressly prohibited the sale of any slave out of the state, and all minors were to be free at twenty-one years of age; and mr. dumont had sold peter with the express understanding, that he was soon to return to the state of new york, and be emancipated at the specified time.