2010.54.5992

• african american
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Poster has a bright pink background with purple, white and pink text. To the left is an image of a woman with a prominent left forearm. Poster reads, "The man over there says that women need to be helped into carriages and lifted over ditches, and to have the best place everwhere. Nobody ever helps me into carriages or over puddles or gives me the best place...and ain't I a woman?/ Look at my arm! I have poughed and planted and gathered into barns, and no man could head me...and ain't I a woman?/ I could work 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?/ I have borne thirteen children, and seen most of 'em sold into slavery, and when I cried out with my mother's grief, none but Jesus heard me...and ain't I a woman?/ Soujourner Truth, Abolitionist, 1851."