Friday, February 15, 2008

Abolitionists who made similar points

 Wednesdays class discussions illustrated to me that it is not always that actions speak louder than words, but that actions can speak as loud as the words. Especially when someone like Sojourner Truth speak. 

I noticed a running theme expressed by different abolitionists and I wondered if anyone else noticed this:

In the Sojourner Truth handout we were given in class she expresses that she is a women, although she has never been treated in the way women supposedly are.

In the powerpoint we were shown, Angelina Grimke I felt made a similar point about being a slave, resonating the idea that slaves are humans, although they are not treated the way humans supposedly are.

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