Monday, May 5, 2008

Update on my Wiki

Today I researched for my wiki some more. Some women that I included on the wiki in the beginning were Sojourner Truth, Maria Stewart, and Harriet Tubman. It was nice to research the women but in actuality, they were not actually writers. They both did important things in African-American history, but I could not find written works that they did.

One spiritual that was used by Harriet Tubman was a folk songs that she used to inform slaves of their routes for escaping. It was called "Wade in nuh Watuh Childun". Although it has been documented that she used folk songs like this, she didn't create them.

Sojourner Truth gave an important "speech" that infamous day in Akron, Ohio, but she did that as an orator and rhetorician and not as a writer.

I don't think I will use orators like Tubman and Stewart because it would be too difficult, since they weren't considered writers. There are many other women out there that are writers, so I will only focus on them.

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