LAD #19

Sojourner Truth: Ain't I a Woman?

In Sojourner Truth's speech entitled "Ain't I a Woman?", Truth notes that she is speaking during a time period where both blacks and women are fighting for rights. However, one group of people that many fail to recognize or fight for are black women. If white men are considered superior to everyone, with white women and black men inferior to them, black women are considered inferior to everyone. In her speech, Sojourner Truth argues that she is a women. She can do women's work and men's work, she has delivered children, she is every bit as capable to be successful as anyone. After proving her points, she informs her audience that although one man stated that woman cannot have as many rights as men because Christ was a man; Christ came from God and a woman. Man had nothing to do with Christ's birth, therefore women should be treated with respect equal to men. Truth hoped that her and other women fighting for women's rights would help black and white women in their ultimate quest for equality to men.