Cover image for Ain't I a woman?
Title:
Ain't I a woman?
Publication Date:
2020
Publication Information:
UK ; USA : Penguin Books, 2020.
Physical Description:
ix, 95 pages ; 18 cm.
ISBN:
9780241472361
Abstract:
Presents a selection of the speeches of Sojourner Truth, the abolitionist and women's rights leader, along with speeches by other nineteenth-century African American women.
General Note:
"Some extracts taken from The Portable Nineteenth-Century African American Women Writers," edited by Hollis Robbins and Henry Louis Gates, Jr, published by Penguin Classics in 2017, and from Narrative of Sojourner Truth published in Penguin Classics in 1998"--Title page verso.
Contents:
'I am a woman's rights' ; 'And ain't I a woman?' ; 'What will become of the poor slaveholder?' ; 'We'll have our rights ; see if we don't' ; 'I shall hail you where slaveholders do not come' ; 'What has become of the love I ought to have for my children?' ; 'I told them I had bloomers enough when I was in boondage' ; 'Does not God love colored children as well as white children?' ; 'God, what ails this Constitution?' ; 'We do as much, we eat as much, we want as much' ; 'If men had not taken something that did not belong to them they would not fear' ; 'Women can work. If they can dig up stumps they can vote' ; 'I must sojourn once to the ballot-box before I die' ; 'Did Jesus ever say anything against women? Not a word' ; 'What will such lives as you live do for humanity' ; 'I can't read a book, but I can read the people' ; 'You take no interest in the colored people' ; ' Instead of sending these people to Liberia, why can't they have a colony in the West?' ; 'Lord, what wilt thou have me to do?' / Sojourner Trruth -- 'We have planted the vines, they have eaten the fruits of them' / Maria Stewart -- 'The free operatives of Britain manufacture the material which the slaves have produced' / Sarah Parker Remond -- 'Create something ... that's the life test at last' / Edmonia Goodelle Highgate -- 'Often have I been told if I were a man I would be hung' / Jennie Carter -- 'The best way for a man to prove that he can do a thing is to do it' / Fannie Jackson Coppin -- 'We are the heirs of a past which was not our fathers' moulding' / Anna Julia Cooper -- 'We are women, American women' / Josephine St. Pierre Ruffin.
Language:
English
Holds: