Description
Women and African Americans were demanding the rights of citizenship in the 1850s. At an 1851 women's rights convention in Akron, Ohio Sojourner Truth rose and asked the president, "May I say a few words?" She then conveyed to the audience a powerful interpretation of both struggles.
Source
Sojourner Truth, "Sojourner Truth's Speech at the Akron, Ohio, Women's Rights Meeting," 1851, in Paul Lauter, ed. Heath Anthology of American Literature, vol. B, 5th Ed. (New York: Houghton Mifflin, 2006), 2096.
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