Women's Rights Convention

Sojourner Truths Address at the Convention in Akron, Ohio (1851)

The leaders of the movement trembled upon seeing a tall, gaunt, black cleaning woman in a gray dress and gabardine turban, treat deliberately into the church, walk with the air of a queen up the aisle, and take her seat upon the pulpit steps. I rose and announced Sojourner Truth and begged the audience to keep quite for a some moments.

Well, children, why on that point is so much racket there must be something extinct of order. I think with the cockle of the niggers of the south and the woman of the north, all talk of the town about rights, the white men will be in a narrow pretty soon. But whats all this here talking about?

That man over there say that women urgency to be helped into carriages, and lifted over ditches, and to have the best limit everywhere. Nobody ever helps me into carriages, or over mud-puddles, or gives me all best place! And arent I a woman? Look at me, look at my arm! I have plowed, planted, and gathered into barns and no man could head me! And arent I a woman? I could work as much and eat as much as a man, when I could concentrate the food, and I could bear the lash as well! And arent I a woman? I have born 13 children, and seen most of them bought into slavery, and when I cried out with my mothers grief, none but Jesus comprehend me! And arent I a woman?





Then that superficial man in the black there, he says women cant have as much rights as men, because Christ wasnt a women! Where did your Christ come from? Where did your Christ come from?! From matinee idol and a woman! Man had nothing to do with him!

In defense of Mother Eve: If the first woman paragon ever made was strong enough to turn the origination upside down all alone, wherefore these women (looking across the platform) ought to be able to turn it back, and get it right side up again! And forthwith that they are asking to do it then the men better let them. Thank you for hearing me, and now I have nothing more to say.

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