Sojourner Truth’s most famous speech was given at the Ohio Women’s Rights Convention in 1851. It would become known as the “Ain’t I a Woman?” speech based on a transcription of the speech widely circulated in 1863 in the middle of the Civil War. However, it is almost certain that Truth never spoke those words. The speech remains, however, a prescient indictment of power based on race and gender.
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