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Speeches Keeping
the Thing Going While Things Are Stirring: A speech delivered
by Sojourner Truth in 1867 Sojourner Truth's famous (and, in term of its signature phrase, apocryphal) "Ain't I A Woman Speech", as transcribed by Frances Gage. (Actually, Ms. Truth was raised in a Dutch-speaking household in New York and would not have spoken with the southern dialect represented by Ms. Gage.) Biographical The Sojourner Truth Institute in Battle Creek, Michigan
Other web resources concerning Northampton history, feminism, abolitionism, and black history Thomas H. Jones was a fugitive slave and anti-slavery lecturer who lived on Nonotuck Street in Florence from 1954-1959, overlapping with Sojourner Truth for three years. A good site on him and his slave narrative can be found at www.docsouth.unc.edu/jones/menu.htm The Samuel J. May Anti-Slavery Collection at Cornell The
National Underground Railroad Network to Freedom Abolition, Anti-Slavery Movements, and the Rise of the Sectional Contorversy American Women's History: A Research Guide Timeline of African American History Massachusetts Underground Railroad Network A good bibliography from the University of Maryland "Paths Toward Freedom: A Bibliography of the Underground Railroad |
