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Yeah, we know. Barring a mishap with a time machine, it's unlikely that you'll find yourself giving speeches in the 1850s anytime soon. But Sojourner Truth was, and she knocked it out of the park by referencing a couple of stories that pretty much everyone knew: the garden of Eden, and the life of Mary.
The religious allusions are fairly straightforward, keeping to Truth's style of reasoning. She hammers home the point that God certainly depended on Mary to bring Jesus around—it's hard to get a baby into the world without a uterus, after all. This pretty much debunks the idea that:
women can't have as much rights as men, 'cause Christ wasn't a woman! (19)
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