Truth’s most famous speech, “A’n’t I a Woman?”, was delivered at a convention on women’s rights in 1851. In it, she is reported to have challenged a Protestant minister’s claims that men deserve more privileges than women because they are intellectually superior and because God created Jesus as a man. Her speech is often cited as an example of early black feminist political activism, although in many ways it is more about the status of the racialized and feminized body.
