Gerda Lerner on Sojourner Truth

“It was only after the development of the Negro women's club movement that feminist consciousness first appeared among black women, and here, too, it is an exceptional attitude rather than a pervasive one. One must note here the single exception, the strong feminism of Sojourner Truth, who was distinctly a forerunner and whose ideas were not shared by black women of her day.”

“In the person of Sojourner Truth, the fusion of the abolition and woman's rights movements seemed personified.”