I love my kid's school.
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I love my kid's school.
In her 7th grade English Language Arts class, their current unit of study is the so-called "Ain't I a Woman?" speech by Sojourner Truth.
Now, schools aren't allowed to acknowledge Black History Month anymore, but I'm sure the timing is just a coincidence.
One of her main assignments is to compare the commonly known speech (publ. 1863) with the speech that is as close as we can get to the original (publ. 1851).
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I love my kid's school.
In her 7th grade English Language Arts class, their current unit of study is the so-called "Ain't I a Woman?" speech by Sojourner Truth.
Now, schools aren't allowed to acknowledge Black History Month anymore, but I'm sure the timing is just a coincidence.
One of her main assignments is to compare the commonly known speech (publ. 1863) with the speech that is as close as we can get to the original (publ. 1851).
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Until 13yo started working on this, I had no idea that the speech I first read a few years ago wasn't Truth's original. Instead, the speech I read -- and probably most US-Americans are familiar with -- was a heavily edited, partially fabricated version by Frances "Aunt Fanny" Gage, a white activist in the women's rights movement.
Gage had given the opening speech introducing Truth to the women's rights convention in 1851, after which Truth delivered her own speech....
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