[Edited] Versions matter: Who's going to tell your story?

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***Please note: I am resending this week’s email because a paragraph went missing between drafting and publication. I think the tech gremlins ate it. Or, more likely, I did something in error. Either way you need that paragraph to make sense of the piece. So here it is again with the missing link.***

Sojourner Truth delivered her most well-known speech at the Woman's Rights Convention in Akron, Ohio, on May 29, 1851. The most famous version of that speech titled, "Ain't I A Woman," known for using Southern slave dialect, was an account provided by Frances D. Gage 12 years after Truth delivered the speech.