29 magg 1851 anni - "Ain't I a Woman" speech

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"May I say a few words? I want to say a few words about this matter. I am a woman’s rights. I have as much muscle as any man, and can do as much work as any man. I have plowed and reaped and husked and chopped and mowed, and can any man do more than that? I have heard much about the sexes being equal; I can carry as much as any man, and can eat as much too, if I can get it. [...]"
As part of a lecture tour, Truth gave this speech at a women's rights conference, challenging prevailing notions of racial and gender inferiority. She thought that the suffrage of Black Americans and women were intertwined and needed to occur simultaneously. A popularized version of the speech, publlished by Frances Gage, changed most of Sojourner’s words and falsely attributed a southern slave dialect. A more accurate transcription of the speech can be credited to Marius Robinson, a journalist who attended the convention and a friend of Truth's.

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