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Lesson 6 Document 12 Sojourner Truth Speaks at the Woman's Rights Convention 1851 "I have as much muscle as any man, and can do as much work as any man. I have plowed and reaped and husked and chopped and plowed, 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. I am as strong as any man is now." "I can't read, but I can hear. I have heard the Bible and have learned that Eve caused man to sin. Well if woman upset the world, do give her a chance to set it right side up again." from Salem Anti-Slavery Bugle, June 21, 1851 ; in Sojourner Truth: A Life, a Symbol, by Nell Irvin Painter (New York: Norton, 1996). Eyewitness to America, David Colbert (Pantheon Books, NY) p 186 |
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