doing some research on sojourner truth and it's amazing how that white woman changed her original words and dialect in the "ain't i a woman" speech to make her sound like a southern woman when she was a dutch speaker from new york. ridiculous lol
look at how different these speeches are, y'all. mind you, marius robinson was good friends with sojourner truth and made sure to write down what she actually said. she was not happy about frances gage's inaccurate, popular version.
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