TAILIEUCHUNG - Gale Encyclopedia Of American Law 3Rd Edition Volume 13 P45

Gale Encyclopedia of American Law Volume 13 P45 fully illuminates today's leading cases, major statutes, legal terms and concepts, notable persons involved with the law, important documents and more. Legal issues are fully discussed in easy-to-understand language, including such high-profile topics as the Americans with Disabilities Act, capital punishment, domestic violence, gay and lesbian rights, physician-assisted suicide and thousands more. | CIVIL RIGHTS Women s Rights Ain t I a Woman Sojourner Truth 1851 Sojourner Truth was a nineteenth-century African American evangelist who embraced abolitionism and women s rights. A charismatic speaker she became one of the best-known abolitionists of her day. Born a slave and given the name Isabella Baumfree she was freed in 1828 when a New York law abolished slavery within the state. In 1843 she had a religious experience and came to believe that God had commanded her to travel beyond New York to spread the Christian gospel. She took the name sojourner TRUTH and traveled throughout the eastern states as an evangelist. Truth soon became acquainted with the abolitionist movement and its leaders. She adopted their message speaking out against slavery. Her speaking tours expanded as abolitionists realized her effectiveness as a lecturer. Though illiterate she dictated her life story The Narrative of Sojourner Truth and sold the book at her lectures as a means of supporting herself. In the early 1850s she met leaders of the emerging women s rights movement most notably Lucretia Mott. Truth recognized the connection between the inferior legal status of African Americans and women in general. Her most famous speech Ain t I a Woman first given in 1851 challenged cultural beliefs including the natural inferiority of women and biblical justifications for the second-class status of women. Ain t I a Woman Well children where there is so much racket there must be something out of kilter. I think that twixt the negroes of the South and the women at the North all talking about rights the white men will be in a fix pretty soon. But what s all this here talking about That man over there says that women need to be helped into carriages and lifted over ditches and to have the best place everywhere. Nobody ever helps me into carriages or over mud-puddles or gives me any best place And ain t I a woman Look at me Look at my arm I have ploughed and planted and gathered into barns and .

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