Sojourner Truth Quotes About Slavery

Quotes about: Slavery

• And ain't I a woman? Look at me! Look at my arm! I have ploughed and planted, and gathered into barns, and no man could head me! And ain't I a woman? I could work as much and eat as much as a man - when I could get it - and bear the lash as well! And ain't I a woman? I have borne thirteen children, and seen most all sold off to slavery, and when I cried out with my mother's grief, none but Jesus heard me! And ain't I a woman?

  Sojourner Truth

  Mother, Strong Women, Jesus

  Sojourner Truth, “Ain't I A Woman?”

• And ain't I a woman? I have borne thirteen children, and seen most all sold off to slavery, and when I cried out with my mother's grief, none but Jesus heard me! And ain't I a woman?

  Sojourner Truth

  Mother, Jesus, Children

  "Ain't I A Woman?". Sojourner Truth's speech at the Women's Rights Convention at Old Stone Church in Akron, Ohio, www.nps.gov. May 29, 1851.

• This is beautiful indeed; the colored people have given this to the head of the government, and that government once sanctioned laws that would not permit its people to learn enough to enable them to read this book.

  Sojourner Truth

  Beautiful, Book, Reading

  Sojourner Truth (1998). “Narrative of Sojourner Truth”, p.117, Penguin

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