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Sojourner Truth

Abolitionist and women's rights advocate. Born into slavery in New York.

“I have plowed and reaped and husked and chopped and mowed, and can any man do more than that? I have heard much about the sexes being equal; I can carry as much as any man, and can eat as much too, if I can get it.”

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Speech at the Women's Convention in Akron, Ohio (Marius Robinson transcript, published in the Anti-Slavery Bugle, June 21, 1851).

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1851-05-29

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