Rank Abolitionist / Preacher / Women's rights advocate / Formerly enslaved
Domain Itinerant preaching, prophetic witness, the intersection of abolition and women's rights
Alignment Holy / Itinerant
Power MYTHIC 87
Combat Profile
Ain't I a Woman
Her prophetic testimony pierces the veil of injustice, forcing all who hear her words to confront the intersection of bondage and oppression across all dimensions of suffering.
Itinerant Witness
Her power grows stronger in spaces of gathering and testimony; she moves between worlds as a living embodiment of liberation's call, never settling, always testifying.
Illiterate (a fact she refused to apologize for); spoke a Dutch-inflected English that some hearers used to dismiss her
“And ain’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 ain’t I a woman?” — attributed, Akron 1851
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*The Narrative of Sojourner Truth* (1850, dictated to Olive Gilbert)
