In honor of #BlackHistoryMonth, here’s a great article about #SojournorTruth’s famous #AintIAWoman speech. The version many of us read in school was actually written by a white woman nearly *twelve years* after Truth’s speech. Frances Dana Gage took Truth’s words and rewrote them in a clunky Black slave dialect that undermined the perception of Sojournor’s intellect and played into the folksy (and deeply racist) Mammy trope.
https://www.thesojournertruthproject.com/compare-the-speeches