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Quotation from Ain't I a Woman? by Sojourner Truth

“I have plowed and reaped and husked and chopped and mowed, and can any man do more than that?”

Sojourner Truth

Ain't I a Woman?, The speech (Marius Robinson, Anti-Slavery Bugle (Salem, Ohio), 21 June 1851, p. 160; checked against the Library of Congress Chronicling America scan)

Truth points to her own labor as evidence of women's strength.

Citation: "I have plowed and reaped and husked and chopped and mowed, and can any man do more than that?" — Sojourner Truth, Ain't I a Woman?, The speech (Marius Robinson, Anti-Slavery Bugle (Salem, Ohio), 21 June 1851, p. 160; checked against the Library of Congress Chronicling America scan). (id sojourner-truth-aint-i-a-woman-q1)

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