Sojourner Truth’s “Aren’t I a Woman?” explains how women were treating during the 1800s. Born a slave, Truth was able to express and describe how difficult life was for women during these times. Truth wants her audience to realize the reality that women were not being treated equal. Although she had “plowed, and planted, and gathered into barns, and no mean could head [her]” (1406) she was still being treated as a slave but working like a man. She expresses her confusion on how women were treated. Although some were working like men, or sometimes even more, they were treated unequal. She points out that a man mentioned “women needs to be helped into carriages, and lifted ober ditches” (1405), but she explains that she has never had anyone help…