Saturday, November 17, 2012

LAD #17: Sojourner Truth's Ain't I a Woman Speech

Summary:
 She begins to say that there is so much racket about the freedom of blacks in the south and the women in the North but the men will soon have a problem on their hands so why are they just talking. She continues on to say that men say women need to be properly helped but no one ever helped her and she has worked just as hard as the men. She could eat and work as much as men and birth children but shouldn't she be treated like a woman because isn't she a woman? What is she going to do with women's rights or black rights? she needs it, because the white male holds so much more, shouldn't she have some rights? The men say that women can't have rights but she brings up the point that Christ wouldn't have been born without a woman's help. Finally she says that the first woman God made was strong but now they were saying that men would be better doing it.


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