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By Dr Oliver Tearle (Loughborough University) ‘Ain’t I a Woman?’ – sometimes known as ‘Ar’n’t I a Woman?’ – is the title of a speech which Sojourner Truth, a freed African slave living in the United States, delivered in 1851 at the Women’s Convention in Akron, Ohio.
What’s more, Truth’s question—“ain’t I a woman?”—reveals the racism in the burgeoning American feminist movement. Men never help Truth (or even acknowledge her) because she’s Black. She implies that her Blackness erases her womanhood in the eyes of these hypocritical and paternalistic men.
"Ain't I a Woman?" is a speech, generally considered to have been delivered extemporaneously, by Sojourner Truth (1797–1883), born into slavery in the state of New York. Some time after gaining her freedom in 1827, she became a well known anti-slavery speaker.
AIN'T I A WOMAN? by Sojourner Truth. Delivered 1851 at the Women's Convention in Akron, Ohio. Well, children, where there is so much racket there must be something out of kilter. I think that 'twixt the negroes of the South and the women at the North, all talking about rights, the white men will be in a fix pretty soon.
Sojourner Truth’s “Ain’t I a Woman” is in conversation with Stanton’s address. Both speeches invoke themes of religious hypocrisy, and both point to the biblical story of Adam and Eve from the Book of Genesis in order to argue that women have been unfairly maligned throughout history because of Eve’s perceived “original sin ...
17 de nov. de 2017 · At the 1851 Women’s Rights Convention held in Akron, Ohio, Sojourner Truth delivered what is now recognized as one of the most famous abolitionist and women’s rights speeches in American history, “Ain’t I a Woman?”
4 de may. de 2021 · The exact wording of her speech, which becomes famous for the refrain, “Ain’t I a Woman?” has been lost to history. In fact, historians have since challenged whether Truth ever used the...
