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,…

Sojourner Truth: Ain’t I a Woman?

She is described as an abolitionist, women rights activists even when The Karens didn’t want her there, and all around bad-ass! She escaped slavery only to use the courts to sue successfully for the freedom of her son with the help of white abolitionists.

I wonder if they made her feel as if she owed them forevermore…