"I have plowed and reaped and husked and chopped and mowed, and can any man do more than that?...Ain't I a woman?" Sojourner Truth (1797-1883) was born into slavery in 1897 and sold away from her family as a child. Many years later, free at last, she became the first black woman to travel around the country preaching for human rights. Patricia and Fredrick McKissack introduce young readers to one of America's most eloquent, often-quoted reformers, an outspoken woman who delivered passionate sermons on the abolition of ...
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"I have plowed and reaped and husked and chopped and mowed, and can any man do more than that?...Ain't I a woman?" Sojourner Truth (1797-1883) was born into slavery in 1897 and sold away from her family as a child. Many years later, free at last, she became the first black woman to travel around the country preaching for human rights. Patricia and Fredrick McKissack introduce young readers to one of America's most eloquent, often-quoted reformers, an outspoken woman who delivered passionate sermons on the abolition of slavery and the importance of women's rights.
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