- Who was Sojourner Truth? Why didn't she record her own speech? Under what circumstances was this speech delivered?
- What are some differences between the two versions, one published in Anti-Slavery Bugle in 1851 and the second included by Frances Gage in her Narrative of Sojourner Truth in 1878? Which do you think may more closely approximate her speech?
- What aspects of her speech do you think impressed her audience so favorably? What are some features of her rhetoric? What basic points does she make?
- How does Truth link the anti-slavery and woman suffrage movements?