American Literature / Unit 9 AML 0818 short lesson, about 20 seconds
Sojourner Truth and "Ain't I a Woman?"
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The idea
Born Isabella Baumfree in New York and enslaved until adulthood, Sojourner Truth took a new name and became a travelling preacher, abolitionist and campaigner for women's rights. Her speech at an eighteen fifty-one convention answered men who argued that women were too delicate for the vote.
In practice
A former slave, renamed for the road.
Where people slip
She could neither read nor write.
Your place on the trail
Every lesson rests on earlier ones and opens later ones. Tap any to jump.
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