“I have borne thirteen children, and seen most all sold off to slavery, and when I cried out with my mother's grief, none but Jesus heard me.”
Sojourner Truth, 1851 · born enslaved in New York, abolitionist, speaking in Akron, Ohio
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“I have borne thirteen children, and seen most all sold off to slavery, and when I cried out with my mother's grief, none but Jesus heard me.”