Cardozo Law Review
Abstract
This Article begins with the signature speech of Sojourner Truth, one of a handful of Black women of the nineteenth century who became an important figure in the abolitionist movement, a national figure in her own time, and an icon of both historical and contemporary feminism. As the emblematic Black woman of her time and as a Black woman that both suffered under and transcended slavery, Sojourner Truth was and is a critically situated subject through which to examine the crosscutting constructions of race and gender forged under slavery.
Keywords
Gender and the Law, War, Elections and Voting Law, Legal History, Politics (General)
Disciplines
Election Law | Law | Law and Gender | Law and Race | Legal History
Recommended Citation
Cheryl I. Harris,
Finding Sojourner’s Truth: Race, Gender, and the Institution of Property,
18
Cardozo L. Rev.
309
(1996).
Available at:
https://larc.cardozo.yu.edu/clr/vol18/iss2/4
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