Sojourner Truth statue unveiled where she gave her 1851 âAinât I a Woman?â speech
Hundreds gathered in an Ohio city on Wednesday to unveil a plaza and statue dedicated to abolitionist Sojourner Truth at the very spot where the womenâs rights pioneer gave an iconic 1851 speech now known as âAinât I a Woman?â Truth, a formerly enslaved person, delivered the speech to a crowd gathered at the Universalist Old Stone Church in Akron for the Ohio Womenâs Rights Convention. In the speech, Truth drew upon the hardships she faced while she was enslaved and asked the audience why her humanity and the humanity of other enslaved African Americans was not seen in the