ose infants are men now, and more manly than those here. Maybe you'd like to suck? (Pauli 189-190).
Using Biblical metaphors and commonsense forthrightness, Sojourner Truth advocated an end to slavery by nonviolent means. When Frederick Douglass, the great black orator, spoke at Boston's Faneuil Hall in terms of violent black struggle in response to the Supreme Court's Dred Scott decision:
"They have no hope of justice from the whites, no possible hope except in their own right arms..."
The hall was deathly still. [Sojourner Truth] had risen, facing Douglass. "Frederick," she asked, "is God dead?" (Pauli 193).
She was equally straightforward with all. When, during the Civil War, the city
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