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Sojourner Truth -- Eloquent Advocate for Women's Rights
Among those attending the first national meeting in Worcester, Massachusetts, were editor Clarina Howard Nichols, physician Harriot K. Hunt, women's property rights advocate Ernestine Rose, and many leading abolitionists, including Lucy Stone, Lucretia Mott, and former slave Sojourner Truth (ca. 1797–1883). The latter delivered her legendary "Ain't I a Woman?" speech at a similar meeting the next year in Akron, Ohio. Susan B. Anthony observed of Truth "had she been educated -- no woman could have matched her." |