Ain't I a Woman?
A collection of Sojourner Truth's iconic words, including her famous speech at the 1851 Women's Rights Convention in Akron, Ohio
A former slave and one of the most powerful orators of her time, Sojourner Truth fought for the equal rights of black women throughout her life. This selection of her impassioned speeches is accompanied by the words of other inspiring African-American female campaigners from the nineteenth century.
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June 8, 2021Sojourner Truth, born Isabella, a slave in Ulster County, New York, around 1797, became an abolitionist, orator, and preacher, and eventually an icon for strong black women. She was emancipated by state law in 1827, and the following year she moved to New York City, where she found work in wealthy households and became increasingly involved in unorthodox religious groups. In the early 1830s she joined the commune or “Kingdom” of the Prophet Matthias. By 1843 she had transformed herself into the itinerant preacher Sojourner Truth and spent most of the next 13 years in Northampton, Massachusetts. Illiterate, she dictated her autobiography to her neighbor Olive Gilbert, and the Narrative of Sojourner Truth was published in 1850. The following year Truth set…
Ain't I a Woman?
Sojourner Truth
Narrative of Sojourner Truth
Sojourner Truth
Narrative of Sojourner Truth
Sojourner Truth
The Decay of Lying
Oscar Wilde
What Is Existentialism?
Simone De Beauvoir
One Swallow Does Not Make a Summer
Aristotle
Three Japanese Buddhist Monks
Various
Anarchist Communism
Peter Kropotkin
God Is Dead. God Remains Dead. And We Have Killed Him.
Friedrich Nietzsche
Bushido
Inazo Nitobe
Ain't I a Woman?
Sojourner Truth
Suffragette Manifestos
Various
On Solitude
Michel de Montaigne
Great Ideas V On Liberty
John Stuart Mill
Great Ideas V Night Walks
Charles Dickens