Alice Walker reads Sojourner Truth
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- Poet Alice Walker reads the 1851 speech of abolitionist Sojourner Truth. Part of a reading from Voices of a People's History of the United States (Howard Zinn and Anthony Arnove,) Novemeber 11, 2006 in Berkeley, California.
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"Where did your Christ come from? Where did your Christ come from?!!! From God and a woman. Man had nothing to do with him!" Such a great line
What life Alice Walker brings to Sojourner's word.
i LOVE this speech. especially the " Where did your Christ come from? " part! that Sojourner Truth had spunk!
You're right no mattter who delivers it, it is still a very powerful speech and moving story. God! how powerful are african women who gave birth to half dozens or even dozens of kids and do the shores with getting appropriate medical care and suffer from lack of respect from their men. Soujourner speeches and sprit should be spread in Africa.
Beautiful, thank you so very much for posting. I play this every year now on my mother's birthday and day of transition. And RIP brother Howard.
Truth grew up in the North, speaking Dutch as her first language. It's only in the transcription by Gage (a white woman) several decades after the speech that she acquired this stereotypical southern drawl
Hello this is the incorrect “Ain't I a woman speech”’. This speech in this video was actually written by Frances Gage 12 years after the real “Ain’t I a woman speech” was given by Sojourner. Frances Gage, a white abolitionist published her speech and falsely attributed it to Sojourner.
The original speech was transcribed 12 years earlier by a reporter, Marius Robinson, and published in the Anti-Slavery Bugle. It can be referenced in the Library of Congress archives.
chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn83035487/1851-06-21/ed-1/seq-4/
If you dig just a little deeper you will see the facts are pretty irrefutable. Here is a link to a site that compares and explains why there are two speeches and why the wrong one is attributed to Sojourner.
www.thesojournertruthproject.com
It is important for many reasons why we re-educate the public about the original and correct speech. For one Sojourner was from upper New York and spoke English with a heavy Dutch accent that is now lost. The speech that Frances Gage wrote and attributes as Sojourner give Sojourner an uneducated southern slave dialect. Why is this important? Because it is another step in the dumbing down of our nations rich and complex black history. Second it was not Sojourner’s identify. Third it helps in erasing our nations northern slave history. I could go on and on. What is important is that we rigorously provide the truth and when wrong take steps to correct them. I am asking you to please correct your mistake in using the wrong “Ain’t I a Woman” speech and at the very least make a mention and provide a video link to the correct one so your students can be aware of both.
Thank you so much for your time in reading this long email. It has been very difficult to sway the general public that something held as the truth for so long is not correct and it is time to give Sojourner back her authentic speech and voice. I am very proud that the National Woman’s History Museum, National Parks Service, Googles Doodle page and Google arts and culture page, Wikipedia and many other sites now offer the correct speech. Would you please
consider doing the same?
Thank you so much.
Leslie Podell
Website that compares and contrasts the two speeches
www.thesojournertruthproject.com
@@lesliepodell8001 As an educator, I want to thank you for posting this Truth under this video. I visited the site and thoroughly enjoyed the correct version of the speech.
Amazing how much misinformation exists in our world.
Thank you for taking the time to write your post.
@@QAsession you are so welcome 🍎. Thank you for being curious, you a clearly a good teacher. Your students are lucky to have such a good example. History is not perfect and it’s important we examine these mistruths!
Actually, I think her delivery is great. She emphasizes the pain of having her children taken from her in a way that other readers of the piece in this series don't. Her inflections also indicate that she understands that the famous phrase, "ain't I a woman," isn't a stand-alone slogan separate from the context of its text. In its context, the phrase is intended to alert listeners to the suffering of blacks, not to the power of women, yet many seem to take it as a woman-power rallying cry.
i LOVE this this is one of the best speeches ever i mean the original was done strait from her head!!! just as good or better than i have a dream
Thank you🙏
I have read some of your work.
NO MORE STOLEN SISTERS!
NO MORE STOLEN BABIES!
Love this version, she reads it with such dignity. I don't think there is any need for big theatrics when the text itself carries the power it does - I doubt Sojourner shouted it.
The crazy thing is a white abolishionist Frances Dana Gage changed the words because Sojourner sounded too proper and wanted to make it more “black”. Look it up.
Simply incredible! That was beautiful!!!
I love this!..With attitude. Nicely Done.
Excellent reading
I didn't realize what a beautiful voice she has
I like Alice Walker's the best because I imaging Sojourner Truth having a very calm and understated voice with an underlying power. Alfre Woodard's is my no. 2 choice.
Brilliant delivery.
Most people are familiar with the popular version you are highlighting of Sojourner Truth's famous, “Ain’t I a woman” speech but they have no idea that this popular version is not Sojourner's speech and is vastly different from her original 1851 speech.
Sojouner Truth and Alice walker smh Two of my favorite people in the history of mankind!
Womankind ;)
i love this so much.
Eloquently stated. Thank you Alice Walker. Women of the world are awakening to the call.
I just love it!
Alice Walker is a national treasure, as was Sojourner Truth
I love this speech. Hearing Alice Walker perform it is a real treat. The audience laughter confuses me though.
I just love it !!!!!!!!!!!!!
beautifully read
Beautiful
REAL TRUTH
Good performance
Perfection!
some of ya'll are spending too much time on deliver and not much on content. who cares who delivered the speech best. It was powerful nonetheless
Beautiful!
very nicely done...search kerry walker story
Nice!!!!!!!!!!!!!
"And ain't I a woman"
gr8 ...
Leave a death threat in my house and still think they pretend they don't know me and they are not threatening or abusing me into silence.
That threat alone confirmed everything I have been saying. I am being tortured to silence me about the abuse thrown at me for saying Gigi has a doll not a baby. It is systemic.
After that threat in my basement - there is nowhere else to go and anyone that stands by your side is a fool. A dangerous fool.
Mans do a pretty good job of tearing down everything good & decent on the planet. Alice Walker is not "tearing you down" nor "turning you down". She is surrounding you with women. But not as your playthings. As your mothers, your sisters, your grandmothers, your aunts, your daughters.
Her point is that "Woman" includes both man & woman. Mothers love all their children, male or female. It is only males that prefer boys, only want boys. Why? Well, males are more "valued" than females.
Love her but unfortunately she is reciting the incorrect version. This popular version was written by Francis Gage in 1863, a privileged white woman who published it under Sojourner Truth's name. Hear the original historically correct 1851 transcription at @t
Love her but unfortunately she is reciting the incorrect version. Hear the original historically correct 1851 transcription at @t
whynot?
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but...why did she do that? what was her reasoning?
Did you know the original speech was held in Dutch?
Not in Dutch but rather in a Dutch accent. Sojourner was raised in upstate New York which at the tine was a Dutch speaking only area. She learned and spoke a very good and protect English later in life but always spoke with a heavy Dutch accent.
need I say more than ashurah, ashurah?
Sojourner truth simply wanted men to recognise woman's equality, she didn't hate them only their attitude. A woman who bore 13 children was no man hater.
That was a historical lie. She did not have 13 children. Francese Gage who wrote this version of The speech and published it 13 years later after the original speech was given. Frances published her speech under Sojourner’s name added many non truths to this speech. It was more of a publicity stunt. The real and original speech can be accessed through the library of Congress and is titled “On Woman’s Rights”. It was transcribed by her friend Rev. Marius Robins who published it in the Anti Slavery Bugle.
chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn83035487/1851-06-21/ed-1/seq-4/
She was force to have 13 kids , by a little thing called slavery, stop acting dumb🤡
why?
It's a live audience...why isn't she interacting? Each time it could be so powerful! "Ain't I a woman?!"
My weird cousin managed to make the most beautiful pole dancer there is in my town fall in love with him as he used the Cupid Love System (search in Google). I wish I’d been joyful for him but I want such a gorgeous girl to fall in love with me. I’m totally envious. Does that mean I’m a bad human being?
Lol at first I thought that white guy was gonna read it
My Christ came from Constantine. Yours?
Without a woman to carry the child and support his or her life their would be no men. Miss Suicide the debate you try to make about where the baby came from is not the point. Men leave the deposit (sperm). Women still have to carry it for it to live. Your debate is nill.
When arguing with someone, attack the issue not the person. The ad hominem in this thread makes my eyes hurt. So what if Gaelgese is a man hater. You are no better with the mysogyny. You two need to grow up and L2 argue.
Didn't this women (Alice Walker) neglected her daughter when she was growing up and then turned around and said (when her daughter was grown and pregnant) that she didn't want to be her mother anymore? Some of these feminist are horrible women that are worse than men. What women would leave her daughter and then turn around and calls herself a feminist? She also blamed her daughter for being half white, and she was the one who had a baby with a white man. I don't get it. Alice Walker is crazy.
This is feminism at it's best!
Why are you ignoring the fact that she is also focusing on human rights? african american rights? I call YOU bullshit
Ça pue ça mère
Kerry did it better.
alfre woodard did this better !
why?