Sojourner Truth in her older age. She is a Black woman wearing a white cap and shawl.

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   “I feel that if I have to answer for the deeds done in my body just as much as a man, I have a right to have as much as a man.”

   #OnThisDay, 9 May 1867, Sojourner Truth addresses the American Equal Rights Association, arguing for equal rights for Black women.

   Read a brief history of Truth’s life: https://wams.nyhistory.org/a-nation-divided/antebellum/sojourner-truth/

   #WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #EqualRights #BlackAmericanHistory #AmericanHistory #Histodons