Sojourner Truth

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The Narrative of Sojourner Truth: A Northern Slave, taken down by Olive Gilbert (biography) 1850, revised and expanded edition, 1875

*“Ar'n't I a woman?” (speech), edited by Frances Dana Gage, 1851

*Being illiterate, Truth never wrote down any of her speeches, and only four of the many she gave were transcribed in their entirety. There are numerous fragments and reports of Truth's speeches mentioned in contemporary newspapers and periodicals, and there are often several versions of a single speech, including this speech given at the 1851 Women's Convention in Akron, Ohio. The title of the 1863 version, which was revised by Frances Dana Cage, is “Ar'n't I a woman?”, while the version reprinted in History of Woman Sufferage, Vol. 1, by Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Matilda Joslyn Gage, and Susan B. Anthony (1881), is titled “A'n't I a Woman?”.

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