<p>“I feel that if I have to answer for the deeds done in my body just as much as a man, I have a right to have as much as a man.”</p><p><a href="/tags/onthisday/" rel="tag">#OnThisDay</a>, 9 May 1867, Sojourner Truth addresses the American Equal Rights Association, arguing for equal rights for Black women.</p><p>Read a brief history of Truth’s life: <a href="https://wams.nyhistory.org/a-nation-divided/antebellum/sojourner-truth/" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="wams.nyhistory.org/a-nation-divided/antebellum/sojourner-truth/"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">wams.nyhistory.org/a-nation-di</span><span class="invisible">vided/antebellum/sojourner-truth/</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/womeninhistory/" rel="tag">#WomenInHistory</a> <a href="/tags/otd/" rel="tag">#OTD</a> <a href="/tags/history/" rel="tag">#History</a> <a href="/tags/womenshistory/" rel="tag">#WomensHistory</a> <a href="/tags/equalrights/" rel="tag">#EqualRights</a> <a href="/tags/blackamericanhistory/" rel="tag">#BlackAmericanHistory</a> <a href="/tags/americanhistory/" rel="tag">#AmericanHistory</a> <a href="/tags/histodons/" rel="tag">#Histodons</a></p>
