Maps showing the expansion of the slave-based agricultural system
QUESTIONS TO ANSWER
1) Describe Document 1. What can you tell by analyzing the maps and what is their purpose?
3) What were the legal and material constraints on slaves’ lives and work?
4) Describe the ways in which the institution of slavery was distinctive to enslaved women.
5) Document 2: Who is the specific target audience for Sojourner Truth’s plea?
Document 1
Maps showing the expansion of the slave-based agricultural system
Document 2
Video –Alfre Woodard performing “Ain’t I a Woman?” “Ain’t I a Woman?” by Sojourner Truth (Links to an external site.)Links to an external site.
Text – Sojourner Truth (1797-1883): “Ar’n’t I a Woman?” Delivered 1851, Women’s Convention, Akron, Ohio
Wall, chilern, war dar is so much racket dar must be something/ out o’ kilter. I tink dat ‘twixt de nigger of de Souf and de womin at de Norf, all talkin’ ’bout rights, de white men will be in a fix pretty soon. But what’s all dis here talkin’ ’bout?
Dat man ober dar say dat womin needs to be helped into carriages, and lifted ober ditches, and to hab de best place everywhar. Nobody eber halps me into carriages, ober mudpuddles, or gibs me any best place!
And ar’n’t I a woman? Look at me! Look at my arm! I have ploughed, and planted, and gathered into barns, and no man could head me! And ar’n’t I a woman? I could work as much and eat as much as a man – when I could get it – and bear de lash as well! And ar’n’t I a woman? I have borne thirteen chilern, and seen ’emmos’ all sold off the slavery, and when I cried out with my mother’s grief, none but Jesus heard me! And ar’n’t I a woman?
Den dey talks ’bout this ting in de head; what dis dey call it? Intellect, dats it honey. What’s dat got to do wid womin’s rights or nigger’s rights? If my cup won’t hold but a pint, and yourn holds a quart, wouldn’t ye be mean not to let me have a little half-measure full?
Den dat little man in black dar, he say women can’t have as much rights as men, ’cause Christ wan’t a woman! Whar did your Christ come from? Whar did your Christ come from? From God and a woman! Man had nothin’ to do wid Him.
If de fust woman God ever made was strong enough to turn de world upside down all alone, dese women togedder ought to be able to turn it back, and get it right side up again! And now dey is asking to do it, de men better let ’em.
‘Bleeged to ye for hearin’ on me, and now ole Sojourner han’t got nothin’ more to say.
Source: Sojourner Truth, “Ain’t I a Woman?” “Ain’t I A Woman?” Sojourner Truth Virtual Institute.
www.sojournertruth.org/Library/Speeches/AintIAWoman.htm
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