Identifier: negroinamericanh02crom (find matches)
Title: The Negro in American history; men and women eminent in the evolution of the American of African descent
Year: 1914 (1910s)
Authors: Cromwell, John W. (John Wesley), b. 1846
Subjects: African Americans -- History African Americans Slavery -- United States
Publisher: Washington, The American Negro academy
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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have tTie best placeseverywhere. Nobody ever helped me into carriages or over mudpuddles or gives me any best place, and aint I a woman? Lookat me! Look at my arms (and she bared her right arm to theshoulder, showing her tremendous muscular power). I haveplowed and planted and gathered into barns, and no one couldhead me off, and aint I a woman? I could work as much andeat as much as any man (when I get it) and bear the lash aswell, and aint I a woman? Den dey talk about dis ting in dehead—what is it dey calls it? (Intellect, whispered someonenear.) Dats it, honey. Whats dat got to,do with womansrights? If my cup would hold but a pint and yourn hold aquart, wouldnt you be mean not to let me have my little halfmeasure full? Dont dat little man in black dar say womancant have as many rights as men cause Christ want a woman.Whar did your Christ come from? (Raising her voice stilllouder, she repeated:) Whar did your Christ come from?From God and a woman. Man had nothing to do with Him!
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c? Jl _. 3T0DAK . An J\ia>lfi)iiicv iii~;iiM-(i li\ Snituniici- Tnilli I SOJOURNER TRUTH 113 W. W. Story, the great American sculptor, first learned fromthe lips of Mrs. Stowe the story of Sojourner Truth, and dubbedher The Libyan Sibyl, The artist seemed impressed by it andafter his Cleopatra had been finished he told the authoressof Uncle Toms Cabin, some years after, that the conception ofanother type of beauty in which the elements of life, physicaland spiritual, were of such excellence that the dark hue of theskin should seem only to add an appropriate charm, had neverleft him. In one of the Worlds Exhibitions he has a statue inwhich these ideas are worked out. It is called The LibyanSibyl and was a companion to his Cleopatra. The LondonAthenceiim thus described them: The Cleopatra and the Sibyl are seated, partly draped,with the characteristic Egyptian gown, that gathers about thetorso and falls freely around the limbs; the first is covered tothe bosom, the second bare to the

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