S4 E5: Feminism in Black and White
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I Could as Much and Eat as Much as a Man When I Could Get It, and Bear the Lashes as Well
Sojourner truth was formerly a slave black woman who became a preacher and abolitionist. In this recording, alice walker is reading a popular rendering of the sojournerTruth speech at a public event some years ago. I could as much and eat as much as a man when i could get it, and bear the lash as well. And ain't i a woman? Ta freez i woman.
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