KristFist · @kristfist
115 followers · 956 posts · Server nerdculture.de

I know what it’s like to be black because I’m a woman (and yes black women, I do note the double bind) was right was correct is left …

#sojournertruth #JimmyCarter #AnitaHill

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David Pierce · @dpierce
105 followers · 341 posts · Server mathstodon.xyz

@CarveHerName A source for the words by
(spoken at the First Annual Meeting of the American Equal Rights
Association - May 9, 1867):

> I feel that if I have to answer for the deeds done in my body just as
> much as a man, I have a right to have just as much as a man. There is
> a great stir about colored men getting their rights, but not a word
> about the colored women; and if colored men get their rights, and not
> colored women theirs, you see the colored men will be masters over the
> women, and it will be just as bad as it was before.

awpc.cattcenter.iastate.edu/20

#sojournertruth

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Gumbo Funk · @gumbofunk
27 followers · 84 posts · Server mstdn.party
Gumbo Funk · @gumbofunk
27 followers · 83 posts · Server mstdn.party
Sharon Crockett · @SharonCrockett
334 followers · 1173 posts · Server toot.community

Sojourner Truth, born Isabella Baumfree in Swartekill, NY in 1797, originally spoke only Dutch. She escaped to freedom with her infant daughter, changed her name and went on to speak out for women's rights. These are my own photos from Poughkeepsie, NY (Summer 2022).

#blackfriday #blackmastodon #sojournertruth

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