Ain't I A Woman?
Sojourner Truth delivered this speech at a Women's convention in Akron Ohio. This speech was about the difference in treatments between black and white women. She starts by talking about how men will say that women need to be helped into carriages, lifted of ditches, and have special privliges everywhere but then she says, Ain't I A Woman? Because she is never lifted over puddles or have special treatment. She mentions how she works in the field and eats just as much as men do as well as having children and watching them get sent to slavery. Shes a women but gets no special treatment, whats with that? People would say that its the intellect that sets them different from the white woman or even just the minorities from the majorities? Nothing since even if its less, it is still there. Then she mentions how people would say that woman should always be suservient to men because God was a man. But she comes back with, where would God be without a woman to give birth to him? This speech is in summery about how even though she is black, she is still a woman and should be treated the same as well.
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