Most folks I know have no clue that this was the case.

…now-famous “Ain’t I a Woman?” speech at the National Women’s Rights Convention held in Akron, Ohio. Truth, an upstate New Yorker who spoke English and Dutch fluently, delivered her soliloquy in the same colonial English that White female suffragettes used, but the version of her words we all learned growing up were actually penned by White feminist Frances Gage 12 years after Truth delivered her speech. Gage’s version is riddled with “slave speech” that discredited the validity of Truth’s words and re…
5 Phrases Your Black Friend Wishes You Would Stop Using
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Jul 17, 2020
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Most folks I know have no clue that this was the case. Sojourner was eloquent, but that didn't fit the narrative.
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Written by Julia E Hubbel10.6K Followers
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Stay tuned for some crossposting. Right now you can peruse my writing on Substack at https://toooldforthis.substack.com/ More to come soon.
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