![]() What’s dat got to do with women’s rights or niggers’ rights? I have borne thirteen chillen, and seen ’em mos’ all sold off into slavery, and when I cried out with a mother’s grief, none but Jesus heard I could work as much as (c) eat as much as a man, (when (d) I could get it,) and bear de lash as well (b) I have plowed and planted and gathered into barns, and no man could head me. Nobody eber helps me into carriages or ober mud-puddles, or gives me any best place. I tink dat, ’twixt de niggers of de South and de women at de Norf, all a-talking ’bout rights, de white men will be in a fix pretty soon.ĭat man ober dar say dat women needs to be helped into carriages, and lifted over ditches, and to have de best place eberywhar. Well, chillen, whar dar’s so much racket dar must be som’ting out o’kilter. Gage's version first appeared in the New York Independent on April 23, 1863. The most common yet inaccurate rendering of Truth's speech-the one that introduced the famous phrase "Ar'n't I a woman?"-was constructed by Frances Dana Gage, nearly twelve years after the speech was given by Sojourner at the Akron conference. (f) Through God who created him and woman who bore him.īut the women are coming up blessed be God and a few of the men are coming up with them.īut man is in a tight place, the poor slave is on him, woman is coming on him, and he is surely between-a hawk and a buzzard. When Lazarus died, Mary and Martha came to him with faith and love and besought him to raise their brother. The Lady has spoken about Jesus, how he never spurned woman from him, and she was right. Well if woman upset the world, do give her a chance to set it right side up again. I have heard the bible and have learned that Eve caused man to sin. You will have your own rights, and they wont be so much trouble. Why children, if you have woman’s rights, give it to her and you will feel better. The poor men seem to be all in confusion, and dont know what to do. You need not be afraid to give us our rights for fear we will take too much, for we cant take more than our pint’ll hold. I have heard much about the sexes being equal I can carry as much as any man, and can (c) eat as much too, if (d) I can get it.Īs for intellect, all I can say is, (e) if women have a pint and man a quart - why can’t she have her little pint full? (b) I have plowed and reaped and husked and chopped and mowed, and can any man do more than that? (a) I have as much muscle as any man, and can do as much work as any man. ![]() May I say a few words? I want to say a few words about this matter. This version was not the first published account of the Akron speech, but rather the first attempt to convey what Sojourner Truth said in full. The oldest account of Truth's speech that provides more than a passing mention of it was published by Marius Robinson on Jin the Salem Anti‐Slavery Bugle, a few weeks after the speech was given. Library of Congress Link to Sojourner’s Speech > One could infer from this pre printing meeting, that even if he did not capture every word she said, that she must have blessed his transcription and given permission to print her speech in the Anti‐Slavery Bugle. It is interesting to note that Marius Robinson and Sojourner Truth were good friends and it was documented that they went over his transcription of her speech before he published it. I have highlighted overt similarities between the two versions. While Frances Gage changed most of Sojourner’s words and falsely attributed a southern slave dialect to Sojourner’s 1863 version, it is clear the origin of Gage's speech comes from Sojourner's original 1851 speech. And Gage’s version is on the right, written 12 years later and published in 1863, The full text of each version follows the synopsis below so you can see the differences line by line. The original, on the left, was delivered by Sojourner and transcribed by Marius Robinson, a journalist, who was in the audience at the Woman's Rights Convention in Akron, Ohio on May 29, 1851. Below are the two main written versions of Sojourner’s speech.
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