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    Sojourner Truth was an African American abolitionist and women's rights activist born into slavery in the late 18th century. She became known for her 1851 speech at the Ohio Women's Rights Convention, where she argued powerfully for equal rights for black women. Although the exact wording of her speech is uncertain, it was documented that she used the rhetorical question "Ain't I a Woman?" to highlight the double discrimination black women faced due to both their race and gender. The concept of intersectionality, or how race and gender combine to create unique forms of oppression, was important to understanding the struggle for black women's suffrage.

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    Sojourner Truth was an African American abolitionist and women's rights activist born into slavery in the late 18th century. She became known for her 1851 speech at the Ohio Women's Rights Convention, where she argued powerfully for equal rights for black women. Although the exact wording of her speech is uncertain, it was documented that she used the rhetorical question "Ain't I a Woman?" to highlight the double discrimination black women faced due to both their race and gender. The concept of intersectionality, or how race and gender combine to create unique forms of oppression, was important to understanding the struggle for black women's suffrage.

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    Ain’t I a Woman?

    Bell Hooks’ birth name is Gloria Jean Watkins The name "bell hooks" is
    borrowed from her maternal great-grandmother, Bell Blair Hooks.

    Introduction

    Match the halves to form expressions.

    Social status
    Black male Equality
    Social Oppression
    Racial Patriarchy
    Womens’ Racial equality
    Struggle for Rights movement
    Sexist suffrage
    Black female Socialization
    Black male Participation in the womens’ rights
    movement

    Read these excerpts taken from the Introduction and write the main ideas. Why was
    the concept of intersectionality important in the struggle for black women’s suffrage?
    Sojourner Truth was an African American evangelist, abolitionist,
    women’s rights activist and author who was born into slavery before
    escaping to freedom in 1826. After gaining her freedom, Truth preached
    about abolitionism and equal rights for all. She became known for a
    speech with the famous refrain, "Ain't I a Woman?" that she was said to
    have delivered at a women's convention in Ohio in 1851, although
    accounts of that speech (and whether Truth ever used that refrain) have
    since been challenged by historians.

    'Ain’t I A Woman?' Speech and Controversy

    In 1844, Truth joined a Massachusetts  abolitionist organization called


    the Northampton Association of Education and Industry, where she met
    leading abolitionists such as Frederick Douglass  and effectively
    launched her career as an equal rights activist.

    In 1851, at the Ohio  Women’s Rights Convention, Truth spoke


    powerfully about equal rights for Black women. Twelve years later,
    Frances Gage, a white abolitionist and president of the Convention,
    published an account of Truth’s words in the  National Anti-Slavery
    Standard. In her account, Gage wrote that Truth used the rhetorical
    question, “Ar’n’t  I a Woman?”  to point out the discrimination Truth
    experienced as a Black woman. 

    Various details in Gage's account, however, including that Truth said


    she had 13 children (she had five) and that she spoke in dialect have
    since cast doubt on its accuracy. Contemporaneous reports of Truth’s
    speech did not include this slogan, and quoted Truth in standard
    English. In later years, this slogan was further distorted to “Ain’t I a
    Woman?”, reflecting the false belief that as a formerly enslaved woman,
    Truth would have had a Southern accent. Truth was, in fact, a proud
    New Yorker.

    There is little doubt, nonetheless, that Truth's speech—and many others


    she gave throughout her adult life—moved audiences.

    Quote:

    “Then that little man in Black there, he says women can't have as much
    rights as men, 'cause Christ wasn't a woman! Where did your Christ
    come from? Where did Christ come from? From God and a woman! Man
    had nothing to do with Him.”

    Source: https://www.history.com/topics/black-history/sojourner-truth

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