Ain't I a Woman?: Compare and Contrast
Ain't I a Woman?: Compare and Contrast
Frederick Douglass
You can read all about Douglass's and Truth's opposing experiences and viewpoints in the Key Player Analysis for Frederick. Their little contretemps over the role of God in abolition has been immor...
Harriet Tubman
On first blush, Harriet Tubman and Sojourner Truth look like sisters from a different mister. Both were born into slavery. Both escaped. Both turned right back around and worked to end slavery. Tha...
Rosa Parks
Years after slavery was abolished, the fight for equal rights continued. Just check out the 1960s. (And the 1910s, the 1940s, the 1950s—you get the point).Just like Sojourner Truth, Rosa Parks wa...
John Brown
Like Frederick Douglass, John Brown was a bit more violent in support of abolition than Sojourner Truth would have approved of. (And by "a bit" we mean "way, way more.")The white John Brown, of the...
Mudsill Speech 1858
On the other side of the fence, we have James Henry Hammond, devoted slavery proponent, and his Mudsill Speech.This terrifying speech of pseudo-philosophy and pseudo-psychology flatly stated that s...