I thought this was interesting and I always believed the transcription I read . . . turns out it was horse doody! and the worse kind of racism rather than out n out blatant stuff the supposed well meaning white woman who penned this garbage was guilty of the most scurrilous misrepresentation!
Who Knew?
Well we SHOULD have !
Read the two versions side by side linked below and Sojourner Truth will gain even more in our estimation
Finding out that Frances Dana Barker Gage, a white woman, rewrote Sojourner Truth’s famous speech to be more stereotypically “Southern slave” (complete with slurs and misspellings like dat, dere, dey) when Sojourner Truth was actually from New York and spoke only Dutch until she was almost ten and wouldn’t have actually sounded that way linguistically and decidedly did not use the phrase “Ain’t I A Woman?” at all is…whew. And on top of everything, she embellished details about Sojourner Truth’s life (like the number of children she had/how many of them were sold into slavery), wrote that Truth said that she could take beatings like a man, and the reception of the speech in the room (she claims Sojourner was called a n*gg*r, earlier accounts say the room was welcoming).
Frances Gage
Shocked and yet don’t s’pose I should be but compare the two articles here!
Be warned the attempt at pidgeon is deeply offensive in my view and I am a sad old white man!
https://www.thesojournertruthproject.com/compare-the-speeches/