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Founding Mothers: The Nineteenth Amendment’S Place In Originalist Due Process Analysis, Tracy Turner
Founding Mothers: The Nineteenth Amendment’S Place In Originalist Due Process Analysis, Tracy Turner
American University Journal of Gender, Social Policy & the Law
[INTRODUCTION] During a public speech in 1856, Sojourner Truth is described as stating: “I have had two husbands yet I never possessed one of my own. I have had five children and never could take any one of them up and say “my child” or “my children . . .” One of Truth’s two husbands was an older enslaved man, forced upon her for the purpose of providing new victims of slavery. The second husband may have been a man she considered to be her real husband but was never allowed to marry. By law, Truth’s children belonged entirely to …