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Article: 'And Ain't I a Woman?': The road to female suffrage was tough, but so was Sojourner Truth. An American story.(Biography)
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- Newsweek
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- November 3, 2003
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Byline: Eleanor Clift
A former slave named Sojourner Truth electrified a woman's-rights convention in Akron, Ohio, in 1851, striding to the front of the crowd through a raucous band of clergymen who were determined to disrupt the meeting. More than six feet tall and built like a halfback with huge muscles from working in the fields, Truth ridiculed the argument that women were too delicate to survive outside the protection of the home and should be shielded from public life. "The man over there says 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 puddles, or gives ...
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