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Today's a great day to revisit the differences between Sojourner Truth's actual speech, as transcribed by Marius Robinson for 1851 publication in the Anti-Slavery Bugle, &... the (in)famous version, the "Ain't I a woman?" caricature by Frances Gage, written in a false southern-slave dialect in lieu of Truth's New York low-Dutch accent, and published in 1863, in the New York Independent.
Context shapes so much of our "truth" - literally, in this case.
https://www.thesojournertruthproject.com/compare-the-speeches/
@MLClark for sure, no question. the trick is in discerning the subtleties. observing one's own prejudices and contexts and how they form perceptions, create gestalts that guide our understanding.
it's great that you can make the power of context evident here!