“Ain’t I a Woman” by Sojourner Truth

Sojourner Truth, a woman, in her own words

1850: The autobiography of abolitionist Sojourner Truth (1797-1883), formerly an enslaved woman and originally Isabella Van Wagener. (Photo by MPI/Getty Images) Truth, a former slave and one of history’s most noted abolitionists who spent her last years as a resident of Michigan, is still remembered by her famous “Ain’t I a Woman” speech in 1851. But as historians believe her words may have been recorded inaccurately, Michigan Advanc…

"Ain't I a Woman" by Sojourner Truth • Minnesota Reformer

A portrait of Sojourner Truth taken in 1864. (Gladstone Collection of African American Photographs, Library of Congress) Well, children, where there is so much racket there must be something out of kilter. I think that ’twixt the negroes of the South and the women at the North, all talking about rights, the white men will be in a fix pretty soon. But what’s all this here talking about? That man over there says that women need to be helped into c…

“Ain’t I a Woman” by Sojourner Truth

Well, children, where there is so much racket there must be something out of kilter. I think that ’twixt the negroes of the South and the women at the North, all talking about rights, the white men will be in…