And ain't I a woman / music by Rebecca S. Dale ; text by Sojourner Truth. c1991.

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And ain't I a woman / music by Rebecca S. Dale ; text by Sojourner Truth. c1991.

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Dale, Rebecca S., 1965-

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Truth, Sojourner, 1799-1883

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Sojourner Truth (born Isabella Baumfree, c. 1797, Swartekill, New York-died November 26, 1883), African-American abolitionist and women's rights activist best-known for her speech on racial inequalities, "Ain't I a Woman?", delivered extemporaneously in 1851 at the Ohio Women's Rights Convention. Truth was born into slavery but escaped with her infant daughter to freedom in 1826. She devoted her life to the abolitionist cause and helped to recruit black troops for the Union Army. Although Truth ...