Founding Sisters and the Nineteenth Amendment (Turning Points in History)
by Eleanor Clift
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Author: Eleanor CliftEdition: Hardcover
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 2003-10-17
ISBN: 0471426121
Number of pages: 224
Publisher: Wiley
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Book Review: that speech
Summary: 5 Stars
"A Customer" writes:
>Yee also notes: "After meticulous research into the available printed documents of the period, [Nell Irvin] Painter has found no evidence to corroborate Gage's 'report' of the speech, particularly from newspapers that likely would have reported such a momentous and controversial event as Gage supposedly memorialized.
Prominent abolitionist and editor Marius Robinson reported on the speech in the June 21, 1851, issue of his newspaper, the "Anti-Slavery Bugle."
He wrote: "One of the most unique and interesting speeches of the convention was made by Sojourner Truth, an emancipated slave. It is impossible to transfer it to paper, or convey any adequate idea of the effect it produced upon the audience. Those only can appreciate it who saw her powerful form, her whole-souled, earnest gesture, and listened to her strong and truthful tones. She came forward to the platform and addressing the President said with great simplicity: "May I say a few words?" Receiving an affirmative answer, she proceeded: I want to say a few words about this matter. I am a woman's rights. I have as much muscle as any man, and can do as much work as any man. I have plowed and reaped and husked and chopped and mowed, and can any man do more than that? I have heard much about the sexes being equal. I can carry as much as any man, and can eat as much too, if I can get it. I am as strong as any man that is now. As for intellect, all I can say is, if a woman have a pint, and a man a quart - why can't she have her little pint full? You need not be afraid to give us our rights for fear we will take too much, - for we can't take more than our pint'll hold. The poor men seems to be all in confusion, and don't know what to do. Why children, if you have woman's rights, give it to her and you will feel better. You will have your own rights, and they won't be so much trouble. I can't read, but I can hear. I have heard the bible and have learned that Eve caused man to sin. Well, if woman upset the world, do give her a chance to set it right side up again. The Lady has spoken about Jesus, how he never spurned woman from him, and she was right. When Lazarus died, Mary and Martha came to him with faith and love and besought him to raise their brother. And Jesus wept and Lazarus came forth. And how came Jesus into the world? Through God who created him and the woman who bore him. Man, where was your part? But the women are coming up blessed be God and a few of the men are coming up with them. But man is in a tight place, the poor slave is on him, woman is coming on him, he is surely between a hawk and a buzzard."
>The absence of such evidence casts doubt upon whether Truth actually gave the speech and raises the distinct possibility that Gage contrived it.
It seems very odd that Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony, both of whom were at the convention, would allow this report to appear in their book if it wasn't true. Also, why would Frances D. Gage put this remembrance in her memoir if it never happened? I think it's obvious she rewrote the speech giving it more of southern slave nuance, but that doesn't mean Sojourner Truth didn't give the speech. Clearly she stood up and said something momentous.
It also seems very odd that anyone would give this excellent book only one star based on something as nebulous as this one brief, albeit important, speech. Did you really not find anything of merit in the book or did you just go straight to the index and then sit down to blast Eleanor Cliff?
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