History's Greatest Speeches: Women's Voices - Volume I

by Queen Elizabeth I, Sojourner Truth, Susan B. Anthony

Overview

The most profound and important speeches ever delivered are here collected in this anthology, featuring some of the most influential women in world history. Fort Raphael Publishing has here collected seven of the most important and iconic speeches of all time, all of which were written and delivered by the most important women of their respective eras. 

From Queen Elizabeth rallying her troops to fight the Spanish Armada to Mary E. Church Terrell's commentary on being a Black woman in America in the late 1800's, these speeches were among the most influential, important and moving speeches ever delivered.In addition to Queen Elizabeth and Mary E. Church Terrell, this volume also features the abolitionist Sojourner Truth, early feminist activist Ernestine Rose, suffragist legend Susan B. Anthony, poet Emma Lazarus, and legendary founder of the settlement movement Jane Addams. 

This collection of powerful and moving speeches pays tribute to these great world leaders and the words they used to inspire millions. 

This is the first volume of this series.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781949661446
Publisher:	Ft. Raphael Publishing Company
Publication date:	03/01/2021
Series:	History's Greatest Speeches , #7
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	70
File size:	384 KB

About the Author

Queen Elizabeth I of England was the oldest child of King Henry VIII and Anne Boleyn and assumed the throne following Henry's death in 1558, ruling until her death in 1603.In 1588, encouraged by the Pope, the Catholic King Philip II of Spain launched a fleet of 130 ships - known as the Spanish Armada - to conquer Protestant England.The speech in this volume was delivered by Elizabeth at Tilbury, Essex, England to rouse and inspire her troops, who were anticipating the arrival of the formidable Spanish Navy.
Sojourner Truth was born Isabella Baumfree in 1797 and grew up a slave on a New York estate owned by a Dutch American named Colonel Johannes Hardenbergh. As a young woman, she fell in love with a fellow slave named Robert, but Robert's master disallowed the relationship and Isabella was forced to marry a slave named Thomas, with whom she had five children.Isabella was promised that she would be freed after the passage of the New York Anti-Slavery Law of 1827, but her master broke his promise, resulting in Isabella's fleeing the estate. Soon after, Isabella found religion and became a preacher, changing her name to Sojourner Truth in 1843. Ms. Truth eventually became involved in both the abolitionist and women's rights movements and in 1851, at the Women's Rights Convention in Akron, Ohio, she delivered the brief, impromptu speech contained in this volume, which has become one of the most famous speeches on the subject of both abolishing slavery and acknowledging the rights of women in a free society.Sojourner Truth died in Battle Creek, Michigan, in 1883.
Susan B. Anthony (1820-1906) was an American social reformer, abolitionist and advocate for women's rights. She was a key player in the fight for women's suffrage and, in 1878, she and fellow-suffragette Elizabeth Cady Stanton, presented an amendment to Congress calling for the right for women to vote. This amendment, known colloquially as the Susan B. Anthony Amendment, would be ratified by Congress and became the 19th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution in 1920.Tireless in her pursuit of women's rights, Anthony traveled extensively and gave as many as 75-100 speeches a year, one of which is her famous oration, "On the Women's Right to Vote," delivered in 1873, contained in this volume.